Mary Shelley Facts

Who was Mary Shelley?

Born on August 30th, 1797 in London

Her Mother

Her Father

Life as a teenager

Meeting Percy Shelley

Mary Shelley's Death

Mary Shelley's Children

Meeting Percy Shelley

At the age of 16 Mary returned to London, and was introduced to one of her father’s political followers the young Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary began a romantic relationship with Percy despite the fact that he was still married to his first wife. The couple ran away to France which caused tensions between Mary and her father.

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Mary Shelley's Children

In 1815, Mary gave birth to her first daughter prematurely. The girl only lived two weeks before she died. Stricken with grief, the Shelleys moved to Bishopsgate, but Mary soon became pregnant again. In 1816, she gave birth to a son, William, who she named after her father. In total, Mary had five children with only one surviving—Percy Florence, named after her beloved and the city he was born

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Life as a Teenager

In 1812 Mary was sent to live in Scotland with William Baxter, a friend of her Father. During this time Mary became very close to Baxter’s two daughters, Christina and Isabel. This experience was able to give her the family life that she did not have in London. In her later writing, Mary described Scotland as a “blank and dreary” time of her childhood, but the bleak and boring days allowed her to begin creating fictional tales. In spite of her own lack of excitement, she started to explore other identities in her imagination.

Mary Shelley's Mother

Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, a famed feminist sadly died of puerperal fever 10 days after giving birth to her daughter. Author of the radical book, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', among other celebrated works.

Mary Shelley's Father

Her father, William Godwin, was a philosopher and political journalist. He remarried in 1801 (despite viewing the institution of marriage as ‘a system of fraud’) to Mary Jane Clairmont, who brought her own two children with her. Shelley never learned to like her stepmother. Her stepmother was jealous of the relationship that Mary had with her father and tried to keep them apart, also trying to keep Mary away from her books.

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Mary Shelley's Death

Sadly, Mary Shelley died of brain cancer on 1st February 1851, at the age of 53. Roughly a century after her passing, one of her novels, 'Mathilde', was finally released in the 1950’s. However, Mary Shelley today is still mostly known for her classic tale of 'Frankenstein'.