Initially bereft of ideas, an evening’s discussion on the nature of life sowed the seed in the 18-year-old Mary Shelley née Godwin of the gothic novel that birthed ... s rigid social codes was a ...

Mary was born March 4, 1937, as an identical triplet (Mary, Martha and Marva) and being the oldest to Ephriam Willmore and Viola Rigby Willmore in Rexburg, Idaho. She was delivered by Dr.