Facts about Mary Shelley

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   A prolific author beyond her famous novel, Mary Shelley also wrote the post-apocalyptic novel The Last Man, published in 1826.

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   Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, was inspired during a ghost story competition at the Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva in 1816.

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   Percy Bysshe Shelley's death by drowning in 1822 left Mary Shelley a widow at just twenty-four years old.

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   The daughter of feminist philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley lost her mother just days after her own birth.

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   At age eighteen, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, which was published in 1818 and became one of the earliest works of science fiction.

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