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Mary Shelley was born to William Godwin on August 30, 1797, in London. But sadly her mother became sick and passed away 11 days after her birth. Even though Mary did not know her mother she kept Wollstonecraft in her name then dropped Godwin out if her name years later. Her father was a political philosopher and novelist, he wrote Political Justice and Caleb Williams. Mary was a foremost feminist she was mostly remember by being part of the Vindication of the rights of woman. She wanted all women to be able to go to school and get the same education as men. She was raised with her half sister, Fanny Godwin who was adopted by Marys father. Her father remarried to Mary Jane Clairmont who had two children of her own(Charles and Claire Clairmont.) …show more content…

It was good for her she felt like she had something close to a family. Because her stepmother was very rude to her and wouldn’t let her do anything. Her stepmother was more forced on her children. Mary fell in love with a poet name Percy Bysshe Shelley at the time he was 20 and she was 15. He was a student to her father and he was very devoted to his work but he soon later became focused about Mary. But he was still married to his first wife, but they still ran away together to England. Her parents didn’t like the institution of marriage, but her father let her do whatever she wanted to do with her life so she was able to marry Percy. They traveled all over Europe, and they struggled financially and the loss of their first child, a daughter she only lived for a few days. As they traveled they stopped at Switzerland with Jane Clairmont, Lord Byron, and John Polidori. They were all reading ghost stories and Lord Byron thought they should write a horror story that’s where Mary got the idea of her famous book Frankenstein or the Modern …show more content…

They each had to write all morning and working other jobs just to be able to have money for food. During this time she became friends with Thomas Hogg who liked Mary. He tried to be together with Mary and Percy gave him his approval but she was already pregnant. So they tried to put Thomas and Jane together and they got together and Jane changed her name to Claire part of her journal did not make it but there were a few notes that Mary had about their life together. Mary started to get annoyed by Claire/jane, she started having hysteric fits. On January 6, 1815, Mary’s grandfather passed away and left his estate to her as well as a lot of money. She was about to pay off a lot of her debts and gave an allowance on

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