Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in London in 1797, the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and the writer Mary Wollstonecraft, who died eleven days after her birth. She was educated mostly at home and read widely in her father's library, and she met many of the writers who visited him. In 1814 she fell in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a follower of her father, who was already married, and the two left England together. In the summer of 1816, near Geneva with Lord Byron, John Polidori and her stepsister Claire Clairmont, she took part in a ghost-story contest and began Frankenstein, about a young scientist who creates a living being and then abandons it. She married Shelley later that year, and Frankenstein was published anonymously in 1818. The couple lived in Italy, where three of their children died young. In 1822 Shelley drowned in a sailing accident. Mary returned to England with her surviving son, Percy, and supported him by writing novels, including The Last Man, stories, travel books and biographies, and by editing her husband's poems. She died in London in 1851.

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