Mary Shelley Research Paper

Mary Shelley was Born on August 30th 1797. Her mother died shortly after her birth and father was left to care for her and her half sister Fanny Imlay. Mary’s half- sister is a daughter her mom had from an affair with a soldier. She loved reading as a kid (sometimes by her mother’s grave)as well as daydreaming and escaping from her challenging home and into imagination.Her father remarried to a woman named Mary Jane Clairmont who had two kids already.Later they had a boy together. Mary disliked her step-mother. Her step-mother sent jane later known as claire to school and not Mary because she was not seen as needing an education. She started to find writing to be a creative outlet. In 1812 she went to scotland and stayed with an acquaintance …show more content…
The two ran away together And fled to England, Mary’s sister jane also came along. Her actions caused her father not to speak to her the same for some time. They struggled financially and faced the loss of their first child a baby girl who only lived a few days in 1815. While reading ghost stories with a group of friends one night they decided to write their own which is how frankenstein came to be. Later Mary suffered the loss of her sister jane to suicide. Percy’s wife also committed suicide later that year. Percy and shelley finally wed in december 1816. They had a hard marriage and suffered the death of two children. Thier child Percy Florence (1819) was the only child to live to adulthood. In 1822 her husband drowned while sailing the Gulf of Spezia which in turn widowed her at a young age of 24. Shelley Worked hard to support her and her son. She devoted herself to promoting her husband's poetry after his death. Faced her deceased husbands fathers opposition to their bohemian lifestyle. Mary later died of brain cancer on February 1, 1851 at the age of 53 (london). Mary was buried at St. Peter’s church in Bournemouth and laid to rest alongside her father and