Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was most famously the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and the atheist [William Godwin]?, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 after the death of his first wife.
Mary Shelley began work on Frankenstein when staying at Lord Byron's villa on [Lake Geneva]? in Switzerland. She incorporated a number of different sources into her work, not the least being the Promethean myth from Ovid. The influence of John Milton's [Paradise Lost]? can also be discerned within the novel.
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