Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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A monster has been loosed upon the world--superhumanly strong, inhumanly vicious. Its inventor knows he must find and destroy it--halt its career of terror and murder. But as mad scientist Victor Frankenstein pursues his monster through the night, he hears the echo of its fearsome voice: You are my creator, but I am your master. Obey!
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, into a life of personal tragedy. In 1816, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and that summer traveled with him and a host of other Romantic intellectuals to Geneva. Her greatest achievement was piecing together one of the most terrifying and renowned stories of all time: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Shelley said she conceived of Frankenstein in “a waking dream.” This vision was simply of a student kneeling before a corpse brought to life. Yet this tale of a mad creator and his abomination has inspired a multitude of storytellers and artists. She died on February 1, 1851.
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