id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2958 Mary Shelley - Wikipedia .html text/html 18219 2084 74 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/, US: /-kræft/; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.[2] She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was still helping to support her father, and they looked out for publishers for each other.[130] In 1830, she sold the copyright for a new edition of Frankenstein for £60 to Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley for their new Standard Novels series.[131] After her father's death in 1836 at the age of eighty, she began assembling his letters and a memoir for publication, as he had requested in his will; but after two years of work, she abandoned the project.[132] Throughout this period, she also championed Percy Shelley's poetry, promoting its publication and quoting it in her writing. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2958.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2958.txt