Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, Novelist KU Cynthia Weil is the third

Cynthia Weil is the third in the mighty triumvirate of Brill Building greats who wrote as part of a husband-and-wife team

Anna Akhmatova is easily one of the most prolific poets of twentieth-century Soviet Russia

The third woman – and first American woman – to win the Nobel Prize in science

Thanks to Apgar’s research

Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, Novelist KU Cynthia Weil is the thirdphilosopher William Godwin and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft, and husband of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley managed through her 1818 work Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus to make a name for herself, even in such high achieving company. Blending the horrific with the sympathetic, the Gothic with the Romantic, the novel has gone on to become a literary classic.