Mary Shelley
30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851
English novelist who wrote Frankenstein, widely regarded as one of the earliest works of science fiction.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with Mary Shelley.
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- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) Overlapped 54 years →
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) Overlapped 54 years →
- Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) Overlapped 54 years →
- J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) Overlapped 54 years →
- Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) Overlapped 54 years →
Life events
Birth
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Eloped to France with Percy Bysshe Shelley
28 July 1814
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Published Frankenstein
1 January 1818
The novel appeared anonymously in a first edition of 500 copies.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Widowed when Percy Shelley drowned off the Italian coast
8 July 1822
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Death
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