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1797 – 1851 · Somers Town
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley was only eighteen when she handed the world its first real science-fiction nightmare.
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Mary Shelley was born in London in 1797 to two famous radical thinkers. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a bold argument for women's education. She died days after Mary was born. Her father, William Godwin, was a philosopher who raised Mary among books and clever visitors.
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