HerWiki | Wikipedia for Women on Instagram: "In 1816, an 18-year-old girl had a nightmare so terrifying, it changed literature forever. That girl was Mary Shelley and her dream became Frankenstein. Mary Shelley wasn’t supposed to be a writer. Born in 1797, her mother died days after giving birth. Her father raised her to love books but not to be a writer. That was a man’s world. At 16, she ran away with a married poet, Percy Shelley. They fled to Europe, broke. His wife died and Mary became Mary