Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, and died on Feb. 1, 1851. She wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by the time she was 19. The book was first published in 1818. She was the daughter of two great intellectual rebels of the 1790's and her mother wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. After miscarrying a baby, she had ... 4 of Frankenstein. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a gothic science-fiction novel told through the letters of Robert Walton, who, in his letters, quotes Victor Frankenstein's first-person narrative at length; Victor, in turn, qu...

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