After creating a life from the parts of dead humans, Dr. Frankenstein is turned upon and tormented by his monster. Disturbing and profoundly moving, Frankenstein has become part of our own mythology.

 
Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in 1797 in London. She eloped to France with Shelley, whom she married in 1816. After Frankenstein, she wrote several novels, including Valperga and Falkner, and edited editions of the poetry of Shelley, who had died in 1822. Mary Shelley died in London in 1851.


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