Which English author wrote the 1818 Gothic masterpiece 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus', considered by many scholars to be the earliest true work of science fiction?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: A. Mary Shelley

  1. Step 1: Written when the author was only eighteen during the 'Year Without a Summer' (1816) at Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva, the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818.
  2. Step 2: Mary Shelley depicted young natural scientist Victor Frankenstein assembling a sentient humanoid creature from cadaver parts, exploring scientific hubris, parental abandonment, and societal prejudice.
Answer
Mary Shelley
Why not the others: 'Percy Bysshe Shelley' Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major English Romantic poet who wrote 'Ozymandias', 'Ode to the West Wind', and Mary's husband; 'Lord Byron' Lord Byron was a Romantic poet famous for 'Don Juan', 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage', and hosting the Geneva ghost-story challenge in 1816; 'Bram Stoker' Bram Stoker was the 19th-century Irish author who wrote the iconic 1897 Gothic epistolary vampire novel 'Dracula'.

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