 Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and Willaim Godwin; Mary Shelley, is famous as the author of Frankenstein (1818), a novel, conceived and developed after a conversation one evening, with Lord Byron, in Europe, whilst accompanying her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Frankenstein's popularity as a horror tale, has eclipsed its original philosophical content. In his "Preface," Shelley warned against interpreting his wife's book as an attack on romantic philosophy; rather, it attacks romantic isolation. |
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