Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is best known for writing Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818, revised 1831), a text that is part Gothic novel and part philosophical novel. It is often considered an early example of science fiction. Shelley finished writing the first edition of Frankenstein when she was 19 years old.
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