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Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin Shelley was the only daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollenstonecraft. Her life though scattered with tragedies and disgrace, was one of great passion and poetry. Mary Shelley is best known for her novel Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, which has transcended the Gothic and horror genres. Shelley's other literary works were mildly successful their time, but are little known today. To understand her writing you must first know her background. Her mother, Mary Wollenstonecraft was an early feminist. In 1792, she published A Vindication of the Rights of Man. This was book that showed Mary Wollenstonecraft was way ahead of her time. She had an illegitimate child with American industrialist Gilbert Imlay. After her failed relationship with Imlay, Wollenstonecraft met political philosopher and novelist William Godwin in 1796. To ensure the legitimacy of their daughter Mary and William decided to get married on March 29, 1797 at St. Pancras church in London. Mary Godwin was born on August 30, 1779. Her mother died ten days later of infections and complications from her delivery. Like other girls, Mary was educated at home. She absorbed the intellectual atmosphere created by her father's visi
Two weeks later the newly weds moved to Italy. She supervised the publication of her husband's remaining poems, which was finished in 1824. Discussions within the group often related to " the principle of life" and the "walking dream,"(main points in Frankenstein). During this time, her marriage suffered greatly. At the age of ten Mary published her first work, a poem entitled, Mounseer Nongtonpaw: or, The Discoveries of John Bull in a Trip to Paris. In the spring of 1816 Lord Byron was exiled to Europe. Three of Mary and Percy's children died in infancy, and Mary fell into a deep depression that continued through the birth of her other son Percy Florence in 1819. The couple was broke and Shelley had many debts. However, she became pregnant again and gave birth to a son on January 29,1816. While together in the evenings they often told and read German ghost stories, which lead to the creation of Frankenstein. On December 13th Mary and Percy were married in St. In 1812-1814 Mary was sent by her father to visit the Baxter family in Dundee, Scotland in an attempt to separate her and her battling stepmother. Mary kept a journal of her travels, which in 1817, she published as a travel book called History of a Six Weeks' Tour. Too ill in her last few years to complete her final project, a bibliography of her husband, Mary died at home in Chester Square, London, on February 1, 1851 at the age of fifty-four.
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