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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley was born August 30, 1797 in Somers Town, London. She was born of William Godwin a famous writer and Mary Wollstonecraft a woman's activist and philosopher. Eleven days after Shelley was born, her mother died of puerperal fever. William was in debt from taking care of Shelley and her sister Fanny. William married his second wife Mary Jane Clairmont. She has two children Charles and Claire. Mary had very little education. Her father tutored her in a variety of subjects. William took his kids on educational trips, he gave them access to his library. He also had many of intellectual friends visit him like Romantic Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and former vice-president Arron Burr. She was self-educated and was tutored everyday. She often read her father's books on Greek and Roman history. Her father sent her to say with the family of Radical William Baxter in Dundee, Scotland. She met the poet-philosopher Percy Shelley during her stay in Scotland. Mary was meeting Percy secretly at Mary Wollstonecraft's grave. Mary secretly left with Percy to France on July 28, 1814. She got the idea of the book in a dream. She later published the book in 1818. She had to fix the novel for the grammar mistakes. when the book was first published people thought it was Percy who wrote the book. Percy and Mary had to leave Londen to escape from Debtor's prison. They took Claire with them to Italy. They never returned to England. Shelley's last years were of illness. she suffered from headaches and sometimes she was paralyzed in parts of her body which sometimes prevented her from reading and writing. On February 1st, 1851 at Chester's Square, Shelley died at age 51. Her death is unknown. Doctors think her death was caused by a brain tumor.

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How this novel came to be

� In May 1816, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley and their son traveled to Geneva with Claire Clairmont. They planned to spend the summer with poet Lord Byron. While sitting around a camp fire, at Byron's villa, his friends amused themselves by telling German ghost stories. Byron suggested that each one of his friends should write a supernatural ghost story. Shortly afterwards Shelley saw in a dream the idea for //Frankenstein.// The next morning, Shelley started writing //Frankenstein// as a short story butwith Percy's encouragement, it became Shelly's first novel. She later published the novel in January 1818. People thought that her husband wrote the book because it was dedicated to William Goodwin.

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