Mary Shelley Trends as Horror Fans Honor the Frankenstein Author’s Birthday

Mary Shelley was born 223 years ago today. Happy birthday to the gothic queen herself! pic.twitter.com/N0neM7qPeu

Since it’s Mary Shelley’s birthday today, it would be a good time to remind everyone again that she was a teenager when she started writing Frankenstein and that teenage girls are badass.

Happy Birthday Mary Shelley! Author of Frankenstein, she was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist writer, and William Godwin, a philosopher. Her father once said that she was 'singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind'.
She was born #onthisday in 1797. pic.twitter.com/NmjVlScAvi

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful" - Mary Shelley, born #OnThisDay in 1797. pic.twitter.com/QrT2YgPnvp

It's Mary Shelley's birthday. Celebrate by creating something you can't control and wondering whether it wants to exalt or kill you. pic.twitter.com/euebeCqehq

Mary Shelley also wrote "The Last Man", an apocalyptic story of a future world devastated by a plague, leaving just one human survivor. Reviewers called it “sickening” & said Shelley had a “diseased imagination.” It was one of her favourite works. pic.twitter.com/FVFZ2tmoby

Mary Shelley’s dressing-case, full of relics from the storm of her life: glass bottles & boxes inscribed with her initials, a bracelet & a fob chain formed from her hair, gathered at her death, & locks of hair belonging to Shelley & Bryon, wrapped in little envelopes. pic.twitter.com/JFHqFELIXh

Happy birthday, Mary Shelley! Born on this day in 1797 ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/o1rWT5TvMx

Happy Birthday to the OG goth, Mary Shelley. 💀🕯🍂

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.” pic.twitter.com/lQXYIBBeVh

since it is mary shelley's birthday let's take a moment to celebrate how she used to wear locks of her friends and lovers' hair in amulets around her neck and would stash extra locks in envelopes and notebooks and over time she put together quite the lil hair collection

Happy Birthday to Mary Shelley, whose mind was so fertile and frightening that ever since she wrote Frankenstein, men have been tying themselves in knots to try and prove she didn't, couldn't or shouldn't have written it. My kind of woman pic.twitter.com/Y8TibNSKbQ