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Mary Shelley, also known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, was the daughter of a famous feminist mother and a famous philosopher father. She married the famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who encouraged her in the writing of her novel Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, and ranking among the few novels whose basic plot is familiar to almost everyone on earth. One of the first major works to combine horror with science fiction, it introduced the concept of the “mad scientist,” and has become a metaphor for the travails of modern civilization. Yet it has been subject to so many adaptations and spin-offs that the details of the original narrative are often forgotten.