| − | '''Mary Shelley''' (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was the author of ''[[Frankenstein]]'', which was the beginning of an entire genre of fiction, horror. Shelley authored the classic novel when she was nineteen years old. | + | '''Mary Shelley''' (née Godwin) (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851), the daughter of [[William Godwin]] and [[Mary Wollstonecraft]] and husband of [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], was the author of ''[[Frankenstein]]'', which was the beginning of two entire genres of fiction, horror and science fiction. Shelley authored the classic novel when she was nineteen years old. |