Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797 in London, England. She was the daughter of philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, both known writers in the nineteenth-century (Coghill, Jeff). Her father's most popular book was Caleb Williams published 1794, which examined the class differences and the misuse of power by the ruling aristocracy (Coghill, Jeff). On the other hand, her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a leading feminist writer who expressed her views in her famous work A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). This makes them a power couple, reminding them that they needed to get married in order to protect the rights of their incoming child, so they married on 1797. Unfortunately, the birth of Mary caused major
