ary's most devastating personal woes were just beginning. Before she and Percy were to be married, Mary had unexpectedly become pregnant. The couple's first child, a baby girl, lived for only two weeks after her birth. Then a year later, they were blessed with a baby boy, William, in 1816. William later died at the age of two in 1818, from unknown causes (Branagh, 14). After the deaths of their first two children, their third child, a son, lived a long healthy life (Branagh, 13).
             As if the deaths of her children were not enough, Percy Bysshe Shelley tragically drowned at sea in 1822, during a violent storm (Branagh, 15). Mary would never recover from this tragedy. After Percy's death, a cremation of his body
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