Pagine1797–1851 · London, England · also known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Shelley was 18 when, during a rainy summer at Lake Geneva in 1816, Lord Byron challenged his guests to write a ghost story. Her answer became Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), often called the first science-fiction novel. The daughter of the feminist philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft and the political writer William Godwin, and wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she also wrote The Last Man (1826), an early novel about a worldwide plague.
Begin with Frankenstein.
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Mary Shelley was 18 when, during a rainy summer at Lake Geneva in 1816, Lord Byron challenged his guests to write a ghost story. Her answer became Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), often called the first science-fiction novel.
Frankenstein is usually considered Mary Shelley’s best-known work, followed by The Last Man.
Most readers start with Frankenstein.
Both refer to the same writer.
Yes — 1 of Mary Shelley’s books are free to read online in Pagine, the free e-reader and reading tracker.