Mary Shelley

Born: Aug. 30, 1797 in London

Died: 1851

Did not have a formal education but spent much of her time reading in her father’s library.

English novelist best known for writing Frankenstein, which at first was published anonymously.

Met U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr & poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in her youth.

Married the famous poet Percy Blythe Shelley.

She also wrote novels, children’s books, short stories, poems, and biographies.

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”