Mary Shelley Research Paper

Mary Shelley the Marvelous Writer
Mrs. Mary Shelley was born in London, England, on August 30, 1797. She was wed to a poet by the name of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. Then in 1818 Mary published her novel, Frankenstein, in which she was most well known for. Frankenstein first came about by a dare for her and her colleagues and her version of the tale is about a deranged doctor whom reanimates a corpse from the dead and this body is powered by some energy source, this doctor’s name is Frankenstein. Mary wrote several other books, including Valperga in 1823 is “based on the life of Castruccio Castracani, the Prince of Lucca whom was a successful soldier but an iron fisted tyrant. The prince then commanded Ghibelline forces in Tuscany against

Lionel Verney is the main character and the son of a nobleman, whose gambling problem brought him to poverty. He eventually finds out that he is immune to this plague after he gets bitten The story then continues on to tell how he gradually adapts to this lonely life in a plague inflicted world.”(Librivox 1), Lodore in 1835 where “In Lodore, it talks about a wife and her daughter who are left to be the “heroines” after Lord Lodore is killed. The daughter named Ethel who is too much dependent on her parents to live and the wife Cornelia who is too busy trying to fit in with others rather than being responsible.”(crutledge 1) and finally Mathilde where “Mathilda is about a young girland her father after the mother died of child birth, and how the two become sexually involved as a coping method for the father after he lost his wife though the daughter becomes involved with a poet. Mathilde discusses a woman’s search for love, atonement, and redemption.” (Melville 1). She later passed of brain cancer on February 1,

Her mother was even the author of “The Vindication of the Rights of Woman” which was written in 1792. Mary never truly knew her mother because she died briefly after her birth. Her father was then left responsible to care for Shelley and her older half-sister Fanny Imlay, the daughter of the affair Mary had with a soldier. Her father then married Mary Jane Clairmont in 1801; she brought her two of her own children. The only problem was that Mary never really got along with her stepmother, this then lead one of her daughters going to school while Mary remained uneducated at home. Thankfully her father brought in any famous authors and philosophers into the household, aiding Mary’s education, some of these important men included: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Mary often visited her father’s library, daydreamed, and took part in extensive creative writing in her free