| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Shel·ley |
| PRONUNCIATION: | sh l  |
| DATES: | 17971851 |
| British writer best known for the Gothic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818). She married Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816.
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