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August 30: The Modern Prometheus

On 30 August 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was born. Godwin-Shelley was the daughter of feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and political philosopher William Goodwin and the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley. She is most known to contemporary readers as the author of Frankenstein : or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Mary Wollstonecraft was the author of […]