Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Shel·ley
(shĕl′ē), Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 1797-1851. British writer best known for the Gothic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818). She married Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816.
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