Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797β1851) is best known for writing the classic horror novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818, revised 1831). Part Gothic novel and part philosophical novel, it is often considered an early example of science fiction. Shelley finished writing the first edition of Frankenstein when she was 19 years old.
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