Through the passing of time, Mary Shelley grew into the writer she would have never imagined to become. London born in 1797, Mary Shelley celebrated her birthday on August 30, and was only able to celebrate it with her father William Godwin because her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, passed away eleven days after birth due to birth complications. The role model she continued to have was her father, who happened to be a philosopher and political writer and her half-sister Fanny Imlay. Soon after, Shelley’s father remarried a woman named Mary Jane Clairmont which brought along her step-sisters then a brother was created by both. For many reasons Shelley did not get along with her step-mother causing her to find no reasons for Shelley to receive …show more content…
Her new companion was a devoted student of her father, but he soon focused his attentions on Mary. At the time of meeting Mary he was still married to his first wife, and that is when he and the teenaged Mary fled England together that same year. In their journey to England the couple was accompanied by Mary's stepsister Jane. Mary's actions alienated her from her father who did not speak to her for some time. Since they traveled for quite some time, Percy and Mary struggled financially and they had to go face the loss of their child in 1815. Their baby girl only lived to be a few days old which had the effect of struggles with the marriage, leading Percy to start new attachments to with …show more content…
Shelley continued to write more and created more stories such as The Last Man, Valperga (1823), Mathilda (1819), and the autobiographical Lodore (1835), etc. It was amazing to see how her writing career grew from only a writing contest with her