Morality and Frankenstein
Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London to two radicals of the day. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, who died in childbirth, was one of the first feminists and writers of the time while her father, William Godwin, played his part as a radical thinker as a writer and political journalist.
As a child, Mary Shelley was virtually left completely to educate herself amongst her father's intellectual and radical circle of friends and acquaintances. Probably because of the intellectual influence she was somewhat of a child prodigy concerning the literary sta…
