The life and works of mary shelley

Shelley wrote it at an amazingly young age nineteen!

Mary Wollestonecraft, her mother, was a leading feminist writer who espoused her views in her famous work A Vindication of the Rights of Women They married in to protect the rights of the forthcoming child.

When their daughter Mary was born, William and Mary had only been married for five months. Four weeks after giving birth, Mary Wollestonecraft died of complications. Thus, Mary Shelley never knew her mother.

Her father remarried a woman by the name of Mrs. Clairmont when the young Mary was four years old. She enjoyed writing at a young age, and her passion was to write stories intended for a very limited audience. It was at home that Mary developed into a person of letters, following in the family tradition of writers and thinkers.

Between June and MarchMary lived with relatives in Scotland. It was upon her return visits to London when she met Percy Bysshe Shelley, who idolized her father, and their relationship began.

Mary and Percy left England for France in June to begin a life together. Shelley was still married to his first wife, Harriet Westbrook.

Within four years of being married, Percy met Mary, and a new marriage was proposed as soon as the first marriage was dissolved. In lateMary and Percy returned to England and lived in hiding to avoid his first wife and previous back debts.

In FebruaryMary gave birth to a daughter, who was born prematurely and who subsequently died in March of the same year. The couple settled in Bishopgate, England and a second child, William, was born. In the summer ofa tour of continental Europe was proposed.

The summer proved wet and unseasonable; Byron suggested the group take to writing ghost stories to pass the time. It was during this summer that the form for Frankenstein was to take shape.

The story was first only a few pages, but with the encouragement of Percy, the tale took on a greater length. Frankenstein was published in Within two weeks, Percy and Mary were married in St. Early the next year, the couple moved to Marlow, England and a third child, Clara Everina, was born. It was during this time that both small children died; Clara died in Septemberand William died the following June, in Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poet During the remaining four years of his life, Shelley produced all his major works, including Prometheus Unbound ().

Traveling and living in various Italian cities, the Shelleys were friendly with the British poet Leigh Hunt and his family as well as with Byron. Posthumous Poems of Shelley: Mary Shelley's. Mary Shelley's first adult work, History of a Six Weeks' Tour (), introduced her into the peculiar genre of travel writing almost by accident.

Though Mary Shelley knew that much of the interest in the work would be based on hopes of catching glimpses of her husband's life, the book's main strength is the vivid description that had become a hallmark of Romanticism.

Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, was the only daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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• Mary Shelley | Biography, Books and Facts

Their high expectations of her future are, perhaps, indicated by their blessing her upon her birth with both their names. Works of Mary Shelley April 30th- Mary Shelley, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, is born.

September 10th- Mary Wollstonecraft dies from complications of childbirth, puerperal fever. William Godwin marries widow Mary Jane Clairmont.

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poet | Academy of American Poets

Mary soon devoted her energies to the massive undertaking of compiling his poetry and writing extensive notes for them included in The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe (). Devastated by her loss, in Mary returned to England with her son Percy.

Shelley, Mary - Life Mary Shelley’s life Mary Shelley was born on 30 August She was the only child of Mary Wollstonecraft, an early feminist, and William Godwin, a radical philosopher and 3/5(1).