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Mary Shelley

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But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, leaving horror and disgust. Shelley writes about the terror that follows creation and the restless search for identity. She also shows how curiosity can drive daring voyages despite fear of danger.

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Mary Shelley was an English novelist best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein in 1818, an early work of science fiction.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, an English novelist, wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein (1818), which is regarded as an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the writings of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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