Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 19th Century European History, British History
Article abstract: As an innovative and politically subversive writer of novels, tales, and stories, Shelley was a significant contributor to the history of women’s writing and the development of prose fiction.
Early Life
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London on August 30, 1797, to the celebrated feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Ten days later, Wollstonecraft died of puerperal fever, and for four years William raised his daughter and her half-sister Fanny (Wollstonecraft’s daughter with Gilbert...
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