Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797–1 February 1851) English writer; wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

• So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein— more, far more, will I achieve: treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.
  • Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818)