Pages from the original manuscript of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, displayed for the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford literary exhibition on Novemin Oxford, England. Wollstonecraft died on September 10, 1797, days after giving birth to her daughter, leaving Godwin to look after the infant and her three-year-old half sister, Fanny Imlay, the result of Wollstonecraft’s affair with the American author and businessman Gilbert Imlay. William Godwin, her father, was a political writer equally famed for his anarchist Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and his novel Caleb Williams (1794), which is widely considered to be the first fictive thriller. Mary Wollstonecraft, her mother, is well-known for writing A Vindication of the Rights of Woman(1792), a pivotal feminist text that frames women’s “inferiority” as a direct consequence of a lack of education. Her family was of reputable status, as both her parents were prominent members of the Enlightenment movement. Mary Shelley was born in London on August 30, 1797. Notable Quote: “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”.
Full Name: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin).
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