Mary Shelley (then Godwin) was born on August 30, 1797, in England, and became a novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, as well as an editor and promoter of the works of her husband, Percy Shelley. However, she is most well-known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus.

Novels

• Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
• Valperga; Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823)
• The Last Man (1826)
• The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, A Romance (1830)
• Lodore (1835)
• Falkner (1837)

Themes

Frankenstein, as her most popular and well-known novel, is the one whose themes are most studied. Some of these themes include:

• Natural law
• Creation and birth
• Monstrosity
• Causal dependency and responsibility
• Promethean hubris
• Loneliness