Mary Shelley's Accomplishments

Mary Shelley is often overlooked in today’s popular culture and sometimes even in literature. Her works, aside from Frankenstein, are rarely spoken of and few people are familiar with the actual plot of the story. If they are, it’s due to a crude portrayal of the work in a movie or summary. Even fewer people are aware of the acute despair that Shelley experienced throughout her life and how much of that intense emotion she poured into her works. The tragedies of her life are intertwined in her works, and as her life progressed, so did the darkness of her books. Her earliest works are lighter, and the last work that was published is one of the darkest.
Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstencraft in London, England on August 30th, 1797 to philosopher