George Gordon Byron also known as Lord Byron

"Lord Byron is the person that challenged Mary Shelley and his other guests to write a horror story, the summer that she and her husband visited with him.Which led to Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein. He was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond. Lord Byron's notability rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured aristocratic excesses, huge debts, numerous love affairs, and self-imposed exile."

Source - http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/byron.htm

-Sherene Boodram

William Godwin

"Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin, was the founder of philosophical anarchism. He epitomised the optimism of events in France at the time he began writing, Godwin looked forward to a period in which the dominance of mind over matter would be so complete that mental perfectibility would take a physical form, allowing us to control illness and ageing and become immortal. His moral theory is often described as utilitarian."
Source - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRgodwin.htm

-Sherene Boodram

Mary Shelley

"Marry Shelley was born to two great intellectual rebels of the 1970’s, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, but was raised by her father and stepmother after the death of her mother ten days after her birth. They had high expectations for her and this showed that she was destined to be someone of great intelligence. She was not formally educated, but she read many of her mother's books and absorbed the intellectual atmosphere created by her father and visitors to their house. Mary's favorite retreat was Wollstonecraft's grave in the St. Pancras churchyard, where she went to read and write, and eventually, to meet her lover, Percy Shelley. Mary was married to Percy Shelley in an attempt to gain custody of their children. In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley and 19-year-old Mary visited the poet Lord Byron at his villa beside Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Stormy weather frequently forced them indoors, where they and Byron's other guests sometimes read from a volume of ghost stories. One evening, Byron challenged his guests to write one themselves. Mary's story became Frankenstein. Mary’s life was filled with turmoil and sadness, ranging from death to fertility problems."

Source-http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/mshelley.html

-Sherene Boodram