Original: Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
Simplified: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851) was an author best known for writing the novel Frankenstein.