court, 9 months ago

#OnThisDay in #history - in 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in #England - daughter of political feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft and novelist William Godwin, Mary wed Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was 19. They lived abroad, her returning to England after Shelley's death. She worked as a writer and editor, collecting and annotating her husband's works and creating historical novels, biographical pieces, as well as her best known novel, Frankenstein.
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