Mary Shelly was born in 1797 to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Godwin. Mary's mother, Mary Wolstonecraft Godwin was a prominent, respected British writer who wrote on liberal subjects of which she felt very strongly about. She died tragically while giving birth to Mary (Branagh, 11). Her father, Arthur was also an English writer, but not as prosperous as his late wife, or held in as high a regard as his daughter Mary would later become (Branagh, 11). Mary's literary career began with short stories she would write as a teenager. She would write behind the church where her parents were married, and near the grave of her late mother (Florescu, 38). It is reported that she wrote there because she hoped for the spirit of her moth

Respect has also been paid to Shelley's novel via the motion picture industry. To this date, over thirty-seven different film versions exist (Mank, appendix IX). In 1994, Shakespearean actor/director Kenneth Branagh's film version held closer to the original novel then any of its predecessors. Although not an overwhelming commercial success, it proved to be the definitive of Frankenstein films. The interest in the movie proves that there is still an audience for classic horror (In Search of..., TV Documentary).

Later at the intent of Percy, she developed the Frankenstein story into a full-length novel (Branagh, 15). Frankenstein was finally completed in April 1817, and then first published on March 11, 1818 by a publishing house in England (Branagh, 15). The full title of the novel when published was Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Florescu, 2). When published, Frankenstein was critiqued by The Quarterly Review, a distinguished literary criticism publication of the time. The reviewer said this of the novel: "...a tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity..." (Riley, 16). Although it would not be realized until much later, Frankenstein is considered by many to be the first science fiction novel (Florescu, 173), and was one of the earliest forms of gothic writings (Florescu, 67).

Although no other novel in Mary Shelley's career matched the popularity or excellence achieved in Frankenstein, she continued to write after the success of its initial publication (Branagh, 15). Other novels Mary wrote were: The Last Man (1826), tells about her liberal social position; and Lordore (1835), a kind of novelized autobiography told through a fictional character (Funk & Wagnall's, vol. 23, 359). Mary Shelley's masterpiece Frankenstein will live forever as one of the great literary and horror works of all time (In Search of..., TV Documentary). Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley died on February 1, 1851. She was survived by her one son, and what she called her "hideous progeny," the novel Frankenstein (Branagh, 15).

As if the deaths of her children were not enough, Percy Bysshe Shelley tragically drowned at sea in 1822, during a violent storm (Branagh, 15). Mary would never recover from this tragedy. After Percy's death, a cremation of his body was ordered by Ital

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