-Born Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, she was the only child of two successful and controversial writers.
-Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft died ten days after her birth.
-Mary received a well rounded education and because her father was such an important figure she was also influenced by other writers, artists and scientists who would visit her father.
-In her midteens during a visit to Scotland, she found her passion in writing where she could expand her imagination.
-Once she returned to England she fell in love with Percy Bysshe Shelley.
-Along with Mary's stepsister (Claire) they fled to France (1816) where they met with the poet Lord Byron.
-(1816) When asked to write a ghost story on a stormy week, Mary started to write the novel Frankenstein.
-Later that year the Percy and Mary returned to England and got married.
-(1818) Frankenstein was published.
-In the next four years 2 of her 3 children died, and Percy drowned in a boating accident in 1822.
-Mary being a widow supported her only child (Percy) with the money she received from her writings, she published novels, short stories, essays, reviews, travel narratives, and a literary biographies.
-On February 1st, 1851 Mary Shelley died of a brain disease.
sources: Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus with connections
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