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Mary Shelley

1797 - 1851

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: WUUL-stən-krahft, US: -⁠kraft; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary's mother died 11 days after giving birth to her. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Shelley is the 156th most popular writer (down from 140th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 86th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Writer.

Mary Shelley is most famous for her novel Frankenstein.

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Among writers, Mary Shelley ranks 156 out of 7,302. Before her are Diogenes Laërtius, Emily Brontë, Carlo Collodi, Plautus, Yasunari Kawabata, and H. P. Lovecraft. After her are Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Ivan Turgenev, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Tomas Tranströmer, and Guillaume Apollinaire.

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Among people born in 1797, Mary Shelley ranks 5. Before her are Franz Schubert, William I, German Emperor, Heinrich Heine, and Gaetano Donizetti. After her are Adolphe Thiers, Hiroshige, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan, Ghalib, Joseph Henry, Paul Delaroche, and Charles Lyell. Among people deceased in 1851, Mary Shelley ranks 3. Before her are Hans Christian Ørsted, and Marie Thérèse of France. After her are Louis Daguerre, J. M. W. Turner, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, Jean-de-Dieu Soult, James Fenimore Cooper, Karl Drais, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, and Princess Augusta of Bavaria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Shelley ranks 137 out of 8,785. Before her are Edward Elgar (1857), Diana, Princess of Wales (1961), Henry VII of England (1457), Paul McCartney (1942), Alfred the Great (849), and Christopher Lee (1922). After her are William Harvey (1578), Catherine Parr (1512), Macbeth, King of Scotland (1005), Henry Morgan (1635), Rosalind Franklin (1920), and Brian Josephson (1940).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Mary Shelley ranks 14. Before her are D. H. Lawrence (1885), Daniel Defoe (1660), Virginia Woolf (1882), Jane Austen (1775), Lewis Carroll (1832), and Emily Brontë (1818). After her are Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), Walter Scott (1771), Anna Wintour (1949), John Milton (1608), and Charlotte Brontë (1816).

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