Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley grew up to become an essayist, biographer, short story writer, and novelist, most notably known for her novel ‘Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus’, published in 1818. Shelley led a complicated private life and suffered much ostracism due to her relationship with poet, playwright, author, and married man Percy Bysshe Shelley, which later came to be her husband. Shelly lost three of her children prematurely causing her to go into a deep depression. Even after the birth of her only surviving child Percy Florence, born in 1819, Shelly’s depression stood unaffected. Shelley’s husband died only three years after Percy Florence’s birth, drowning after attempting to sail through a storm. After struggling with
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Shelley was married to Harriet Westbrook with a young daughter and expecting. Percy and Mary Shelley soon fell in love and started meeting in secrecy at her mother’s grave and when William discovered, without success, he tried to discontinue the relationship. The couple elopes to France with Mary’s step sister, Claire Clairmont, and only returned when they ran into financial problems. Upon their return, Mary Shelley was pregnant and her father refused any assistance towards Mary and Percy. In February of 1815, daughter Clara Shelley was born two months prematurely, only to die a few weeks after birth. The following year, 1816, their son William Shelley is born in January. Percy was constantly leaving home, escaping from creditors and also at the time Harriet, Percy’s wife, gave birth to their son and Percy seemed to want Mary Shelley to have an affair with others. They left to Geneva with step sister Claire in 1816, to spend the summer with Lord Byron, who was Claire’s paramour at the time. The bad weather confined them to the house and they spend much of their time reading ghost stories which prompted Mary to write the first sketch of what was to become her most famous novel Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, starting the genre we know today as science
Shelley was married to Harriet Westbrook with a young daughter and expecting. Percy and Mary Shelley soon fell in love and started meeting in secrecy at her mother’s grave and when William discovered, without success, he tried to discontinue the relationship. The couple elopes to France with Mary’s step sister, Claire Clairmont, and only returned when they ran into financial problems. Upon their return, Mary Shelley was pregnant and her father refused any assistance towards Mary and Percy. In February of 1815, daughter Clara Shelley was born two months prematurely, only to die a few weeks after birth. The following year, 1816, their son William Shelley is born in January. Percy was constantly leaving home, escaping from creditors and also at the time Harriet, Percy’s wife, gave birth to their son and Percy seemed to want Mary Shelley to have an affair with others. They left to Geneva with step sister Claire in 1816, to spend the summer with Lord Byron, who was Claire’s paramour at the time. The bad weather confined them to the house and they spend much of their time reading ghost stories which prompted Mary to write the first sketch of what was to become her most famous novel Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, starting the genre we know today as science