Shelley¹, Mary (Wollstonecraft) (1797-1851), English writer, daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. She eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1814 and married him in 1816. She is chiefly remembered as the author of the Gothic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818).

Shelley², Percy Bysshe (1792-1822), English poet. He was a leading figure of the romantic movement with radical political views. Notable works include Queen Mab (political poems, 1813), Prometheus Unbound (lyrical drama, 1820), The Defence of Poetry (essay, 1821), and Adonais (1821), an elegy on the death of Keats.