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Originally Posted by HarryT
Mary Shelley may well be more famous than her husband in popular culture, but Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the greats of the English Romantic movement, and will surely be remembered in the field of English literature as long as his contemporaries like Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron.
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Right.
But Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley transcends english literature.
She is a global literary figure and Frankenstein is a transcendent work that focuses on primal elements of human nature as much as the Greek classics. That puts her on a higher plane than english literary figures. Or French, Spanish, or American, for that matter.