Question: Who was the father of the author who wrote the 1830 historical novel about the life of Perkin Warbeck?
Context: Lady Catherine Gordon (  1474 –October 1537) was a Scottish noblewoman and the wife of Yorkist pretender, Perkin Warbeck.  After her imprisonment by King Henry VII of England, she became a favoured lady-in-waiting of his wife, Elizabeth of York.  She had a total of four husbands, but there are no records she had any surviving children. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" (1818).  She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Don Pedro de Ayala also Pedro López Ayala (died 31 January 1513) was a 16th-century Spanish diplomat employed by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile at the courts of James IV of Scotland and Henry VII of England.  His mission to Scotland was concerned with the King's marriage and the international crisis caused by the pretender Perkin Warbeck.  In his later career he supported Catherine of Aragon in England but was involved in a decade of rivalry with the resident Spanish ambassador in London.  Ayala was a Papal prothonotary, Archdeacon of London, and Bishop of the Canary Islands. Perkin Warbeck is a Caroline era history play by John Ford.  It is generally ranked as one of Ford's three masterpieces, along with "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" and "The Broken Heart".  T. S. Eliot went so far as to call "Perkin Warbeck" "unquestionably Ford's highest achievement...one of the very best historical plays outside of the works of Shakespeare in the whole of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama." The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance is an 1830 historical novel by Mary Shelley about the life of Perkin Warbeck.  The book takes a Yorkist point of view and proceeds from the conceit that Perkin Warbeck died in childhood and the supposed impostor was indeed Richard of Shrewsbury.  Henry VII of England is repeatedly described as a "fiend" who hates Elizabeth of York, his wife and Richard's sister, and the future Henry VIII, mentioned only twice in the novel, is a vile youth who abuses dogs.  Her preface establishes that records of the Tower of London, as well as the histories of Edward Hall, Raphael Holinshed, and Francis Bacon, the letters of Sir John Ramsay to Henry VII that are printed in the Appendix to John Pinkerton's History of Scotland establish this as fact.  Each chapter opens with a quotation.  The entire book is prefaced with a quotation in French by Georges Chastellain and Jean Molinet. Sir Thomas Thwaites or Thwaytes (c.1435–1503) was an English civil servant, who was involved in the Perkin Warbeck conspiracy. Perkin Warbeck (c. 1474 – 23 November 1499) was a pretender to the English throne. This is a list of works by Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851), the British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" (1818).  She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Until the 1970s, Mary Shelley was known mainly for her efforts to publish Percy Shelley's works and for "Frankenstein".  Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of Mary Shelley’s achievements, however.  Scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels "Valperga" (1823) and "Perkin Warbeck" (1830), the apocalyptic novel "The Last Man" (1826), and her final two novels, "Lodore" (1835) and "Falkner" (1837).  Studies of her lesser-known works such as the travel book "Rambles in Germany and Italy" (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia" (1829–46) support the growing view that Mary Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life.  Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society.  This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and Enlightenment political theories. William Parron (b. c. 1460, fl.  1500) was an Italian astrologer, who worked for Henry VII of England, from 1498 to 1503.  An author of almanacs and prognostications, he produced also in 1499 "De astrorum vi fatali", a private printed prediction for Henry, and engaged in investigative work on the background of Perkin Warbeck. The Second Cornish uprising is the name given to the Cornish uprising of September 1497 when the pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck landed at Whitesand Bay, near Land's End, on 7 September with just 120 men in two ships.
Answer: William Godwin