In this essay, I shall present a loose chronology of Mary Shelley’s life up until she wrote her novel and present the people and events that possibly affected her way of writing the novel/ I shall be stating a few of the events and/or people that might perhaps have affected Mary Shelley in her way of writing Frankenstein. First, I must clarify that I will present actual facts, theories or ideas of how the experiences throughout the author’s life up until she published her novel affected her way of writing the novel Frankenstein. Therefore, not all the evidence I present will not be completely the truth and should not be regarded as such. Now, if we speak of Mary Shelley we must start with her parents.
Mary was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin regarded as one of the founders of anarchism and Mary Wollstonecraft one of the first female published writers. Her father home schooled Mary until the age of fifteen. Because of this constant contact it is possible that his ideal of anarchism could be reflected in her daughter’s writing by the way she
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This is reflected in her story by her detailed and extensive record of travel through out the novel, that can be assimilated to Wollstonecraft first published work “A history of a Six Week’s Tour”.
Since her birth, she lived in England until her father moved her to Scotland to live with William Baxter a close friend of her father. Here she lived from the age of fifteen to seventeen, until she decides to leave with Percy Shelley (boyfriend at the time) and Claire Clermont (step sister) to tour through Germany, France, Switzerland and Holland. We can observe her travels were applied to her writing in her use of naturalism, and her explicit detailed description of Victor’s