Mary Wollstonecraft gave birth to Mary Shelley on August 30, 1797.
On August 30, 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft gave birth to Mary Shelley, who would later become the iconic author of Frankenstein. This birth represented a continuation of Wollstonecraft's legacy through her offspring. Regrettably, complications from her labour led to Wollstonecraft’s demise shortly after, but the influence of her intellectual and literary legacy persevered through Shelley’s later works.