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Mary Shelley (1797-1851), best known as the author of Frankenstein, was the daughter of Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft and wife of Percy Bysse Shelley.
Claire Tomalin is the author of a number of prizewinning biographies, most recently of Jane Austen: A Life.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851, Maurice, or the fisher's cot Criticism, Textual, Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 Manuscripts, Children of the rich Fiction, Kidnapping Fiction, England Fiction