(1797-1851) English author who wrote the Gothic horror story Frankenstein or; The Modern Prometheus (1818)

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( ) English author who wrote the Gothic horror story Frankenstein or; The Modern Prometheus (1818)

 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin born on 30 August London, England 2 nd daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft ( )

Feminist - A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Had 2 children in her lifetime, Fanny Imlay, was born May 14, Unwed mother. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1797 The mother died of "child-bed“ fever 11 days later.

 Believed in alternative, free, education.  William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft became lovers.  Got pregnant: Wollstonecraft asked Godwin to marry her in  Eventually married BUT he was deeply critical of marriage in this instance the ‘goods’ outweighed the ‘evils’).

1801 Father Remarried Mary Jane Clairmont. gained a stepsister, Claire. Claire and Mary would remain very close for the rest of their lives. Result: bitter times for Mary Cruel step mother Emotionally distant father consoled herself: mother’s graveside & Scotland Evil Stepmother?

Sweet Step-Sister Portrait By Aemilia Curran, 1819’ Claire Clairmont  half-sister,  ran off w/ Mary and Percy  to Lake Geneva  was present when Mary first made up the story of Frankenstein.  Love affair with Lord Byron daughter, Allegra, January 1817.

Mary’s Education  Tutors. Studied : parent’s writings literature and poetry Latin, French, and Italian. Enlightenment literary figures  William Blake  Samuel Taylor Coleridge  Charles Lamb.  1 st publication: a poem at the age of 10.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY  political radical  free-thinker  He & 1st wife Harriet visited Godwin's London.

 Eloped: July 16  Godwin wont speak for the next 2 ½ years  Harriet, Percy’s 1 st wife, is pregnant with 2 nd child  Harriet gives birth in November 1814.

 Clara, born premature. Dies 2 weeks later.  1816 Harriet: suicide  Percy and Mary get married  William ( )  nd daughter, Clara ( )  1819 – Percy Florence Shelley

 1822, nearly fatal miscarriage  Percy sailing  a sudden storm struck and it sank.  Percy’s body washed ashore  Mary compiles his writing in The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe (1824).

 1823 Mary returned to England w/son Percy.  Percy Bysshe’s father Sir Timothy Shelley provided an annual income  Percy, Jr. inherited estate and title in 1844  Mary: wrote numerous short stories, essays, poems, and reviews

 The Last Man (1826)  Perkin Warbeck (1830)  Ledore (1835)  Falkner (1837)  Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) Other works

 Bouts of illness beginning in1840’s  Died at home in London, age of 54 on 1 February  Buried in St. Peter’s Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

 What do you think drew Mary to Percy Shelley?  What do you think was the saddest part of her story? The best part?  How do you think her life impacted her writing of Frankenstein?

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