Mary Shelly's Influence On Mary Godwins

Mary Shelley was English writer who was born on August 30, 1797 in the center town of London called Somers Town. She was the second born between her four siblings, Claire Clairmont (sister), Fanny Imlay (sister), William Godwin the Younger (brother), and Charles Clairmont (brother). Her parents, Mary Wollstonecraft (mother) and William Godwin (father), were philosophers, writers, and were both feminists which plays a role in how Mary was raised. Shortly after Mary was born her mother died from puerperal fever, which is a bacterial infection that forms in the female reproductive tract following childbirth or a miscarriage, this left her father all alone to care for his current two kids. Mary’s father wrote a book in her mother's memory, this

She returned home on 1813 and then went back for another ten months. When she returned home upon the second trip, March 30th 1814, she had met a philosopher named Percy Shelley and he was living with the Godwins because he was unhappy with his wife. Somehow Percy was in line to inherit a lot of money. He planned on donating a lot of this money to the Godwins and their business, and had been talking to Mary’s father about giving it to them. When he failed to gain access to the inheritance for whatever reason he explained to the Godwins that he would no longer be donating the money and this made Mary’s family angry. Through all this time Mary and Percy had been catching feelings for one another and even though their families had a falling out they met in secrecy near Mary’s mother's grave. One day on June 26th 1814 they proclaimed their loved for another, and did the dirty, supposedly this was done in a graveyard. To Mary’s shock her father was very against this relationship she had going. He tried many different things in his power to stop them from fooling around

During their travels, Mary became pregnant. This wasn’t good news at the time because they had no money and were living wherever they could along their journey. While she was pregnant she lived with Claire, her stepsister, because her father wanted nothing to do with her. They kept themselves busy by keeping to the reading and writing program they made for themselves. When Mary gave birth to their son she and Percy were overwhelmed with joy. Shortly after the birth of her son she found out that Percy had a side romance going on with her stepsister, Claire. Shortly after giving birth to her son she became pregnant with a girl but the girl was born premature and did not survive. This casted a depressing “net” over Mary and it hurt her very much so she tried to have another baby during the summer and succeeded having her second son, William. When a poet, Lord Byron, had an affair with Mary’s stepsister and got her pregnant they, Mary Percy and Claire, went to stay with Lord Byron for awhile. One night while they were there, Byron asked them to write a ghost