Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797 in London, England and died in February 1, 1851. She was the daughter of William Godwin the philosopher and political writer and Mary Wollstonecraft a famed feminist. Shelley’s mother was the author of “The Vindication of the Rights of Women” in 1792. Unfortunately for Shelley she never had the chance to know her mother who died after giving birth to her. Her father William Godwin took care for his daughter Shelley and her older half sister Fanny Imlay. Imlay was Wollstonecraft’s daughter from when she had an affair with a soldier.
The family soon changed when Godwin got married to Mary Jane Clairmont in 1801. Clairmont moved her two children into the family home when they got together and later on had a son with Godwin. Shelley never enjoyed the company of her stepmother. Clairmont did not find a reason to why send shelley to be educated.
Mary Shelley did not have a formal education, she did take advantage of the opportunity she had while her father owned an extensive library. She often would be often reading and sometimes by her mother’s grave. Mary also really enjoyed to daydream, and escaping from everything she was surround and letting her imagination go into a world where her creativity can be wild. Writing for Shelley was also a way to
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Percy was a dedicated student of her father and he soon focused his full attention on Mary. While Percy was still married to his first wife Harriet Westbrook. Mary and Percy escaped to England together that same year. Taking Mary’s stepsister Jane. The actions Mary took had affected her relationship with her father who did not speak to her for a while. Both the couple Mary and Percy had traveled for a while and they were struggling with financially and had faced the lost of their first child in 1815. After trying again for a baby Mary had delivered a girl who had only survived for a couple