Mary Shelley was born on August 30th, 1797 in London England. Mary Shelley’s Birth name was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin as she was named after her mother Mary Wollstonecraft; which died eleven days after Mary was born because of birth complications. Mary grew up without knowing her mother instead her father Godwin was left to raise Shelley as well as her half-sister Fanny Imlay. Fanny was not Godwin’s child; Fanny was …show more content…
In the History of a Six Weeks Tour it involves many vivid details and descriptions about her travels which gave the travel writing the strength it needed. Her last travel book was Rambles in Germany and Italy which came about when she traveled with her son and his college friends but was only wrote for the interest of gaining money so her heart was not put into this piece which made it unsuccessful. Mary had a couple novels that went unfinished because of some of the hardships in her life. She started on the novel Hate because she lost her early works in Paris when she eloped with Shelley but it never came to be published because the hardships of her pregnancy and illness. She started to produce Mathilda but was unable to finish due to the fact she had her son Percy Florence Shelley which took time away from her writing. She had some shorter works that weren’t finished because she pushed them aside to write her research novel Valperga. Mary had some writings that weren’t much liked for example The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck in which she tried to base of an historical figure but to others it was named a lifeless novel. Two of Shelley 's novels Lodore and Falkner were based on characters in one of her earlier works Mathilda. In Falkner it portrays many concerns Mary had but also brings out her strengths; it 's horrifying, has a mysterious past, has inflictions and torture put upon the characters. In Lodore Mary is unable to portray a realistic mother daughter relationship because she never got the chance to have that bond with her own mother. In the end Lodore became her second most famous work because it was her first work to have a sort of sentimental happy ending to it. The main novel Mary Shelley is known for is her greatest novel ever written in 1818 called