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A-Z: General definitions: Mary Shelley
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(1797 - 1851) English writer most noted for her first novel Frankenstein. She was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, important and controversial writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She married the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. See Mary Shelley Biography.
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Eighteen century English writer and philosopher and a feminist pioneer, advocating women's rights and equality.
An important and controversial writer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley.
In English Literature, it denotes a period between 1785-1830, when the previous classical or enlightenment traditions and values were overthrown, and a freer, more individual mode of writing emerged.
An English Romantic poet
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