Mary Shelley

Biography

Mary Shelley was born in 1797 in London.

Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story

writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer. One of her

most famous novels is Frankenstein. She also

edited and promoted the works of her husband, the

Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Shelley.

Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, teacher and

feminist philosopher, died only 11 days after her

birth, from fever.

Shelley had travelled in the region of

Geneva, where much of the story takes place.

Mary, Percy and some of their friends decided to

have a competition to see who could write the best

horror story. After thinking for weeks about what

her possible storyline could be, Shelley dreamt

about a scientist who created life and was horrified

by what he had made.

Frankenstein

Percy Shelley

Percy Shelley was born

in 1792 in England and

he died in 1822 in Italy.

He was one of the major

English Romantic poets.

He was Mary Shelley’s

husband.

In 1822, Percy drowned in a sudden storm while

sailing back from Leghorn (Livorno) to Lerici in

his schooner, Don Juan. Percy and Mary had one

child, but the child died soon and Mary became

ill, but she conceived again and had recovered by

the summer.

Interesting things about Mary

Shelley• She was eighteen/nineteen when she wrote

Frankenstein.

• Her husband, her, and another couple (Lord

Byron and his wife) decided to play a game.

They each had to make up a scary story. This is

where Frankenstein was born, but she had a lot

of trouble thinking of something.

• She was a strong feminist and even wrote about

it.

• She knew Charles Darwin's grandfather.

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