Mrs. Shelley

This book is a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus', which is considered an early example of science fiction and one of her best-known works. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practiced by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and the Enlightenment political theories articulated by her father, William Godwin.