ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction and one of her best-known works.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Shelley did not invent the horror genre. It was invented in the mid-18th century by Horace Walpole. The first horror story is often said to be Walpole’s Castle of Otranto, which was published in 1765, which was 32 years before Mary Shelley was born.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Shelly was one of the Romantic writers. Her works sometimes moved into the Gothic, a subgenre of Romanticism with several similar themes, but also a darker side to it.