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Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, Novelist KU Women’s suffragephilosopher William Godwin and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft, and husband of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley managed through her 1818 work Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus to make a name for herself, even in such high achieving company. Blending the horrific with the sympathetic, the Gothic with the Romantic, the novel has gone on to become a literary classic.