Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary's mother died 11 days after giving birth to her. She was raised by her father, who provided her with a rich informal education, encouraging her to adhere to his own anarchist political theories. When she was four, her father married a neighbor, Mary Jane Clairmont, with whom Mary had a troubled relationship.

In 1814, Mary began a romance with one of her father's political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. Together with her stepsister, Claire Clairmont, she and Percy left for France and traveled through Europe. Upon their return to England, Mary was pregnant with Percy's child. Over the next two years, she and Percy faced ostracism, constant debt and the death of their prematurely born daughter. They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley's wife, Harriet.

In 1816, the couple and Mary's stepsister famously spent a summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her novel ''Frankenstein''. The Shelleys left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailboat sank during a storm near Viareggio. A year later, Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to raising her son and her career as a professional author. The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumor which killed her at the age of 53.

Over the course of the 19th century, Mary Shelley came to be seen as a one-novel author at best, rather than as the professional writer she was; most of her works have remained out of print until the last thirty years, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. In recent decades, the republication of almost all her writing has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her habit of intensive reading and study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's conception of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote of her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea." Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.

All published works and appearances of Mary Shelley from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances are listed below:

* History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817)
* Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
* Mathilda (1819)
* Valperga; or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823)
* Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824)
* The Last Man (1826)
* The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830)
* Lodore (1835)
* Falkner (1837)
* The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1839)
* Contributions to Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men (1835–39), part of Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia
* Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 (1844)

* The film ''Bride of Frankenstein'' features a Framing Device in which Mary Shelley is telling the story to her husband Percy and Lord Byron. She was played by Elsa Lanchester, who also played the Monster's bride.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley Wikipedia]
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/61 Project Gutenberg]
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791217/ IMBD]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/mary-shelley/4005-51083/ ComicVine]
*[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/MaryShelley TV Tropes]
*[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix10/maryshelley.html Marvel Universe Appendix]
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