1163362 Title Page of the First Edition of \'Frankenstein\', 1818 (litho) by English School, (19th century); New York Public Library, USA; (add.info.: Mary Shelley (n矇e Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 ??1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). 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 feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.); English, out of copyright.