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Born Mary Wollstonecraft Goodwin on August 30, 1797 in London, England.

Mother Mary Wollstonecraft died of puerperal fever 10 days after giving birth.

Raised by father and half sister.

Gave birth to their first child Clara Shelley in 1815

Fell in love and married Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816.

Gave birth to second child William Shelley also in 1816.

Started to write Frankenstein

Frankenstein is published in 1818.After Frankenstein was published the Shelleys

moved to Italy from England in 1818. In 1819 William Shelley died of Malaria

causing Mary to have a nervous breakdown. Also in the same year Percy Florence Shelley

was born the only child to survive past childhood.

Husband died in Italy on 1822. Has a dangerous miscarriage which almost

took her life. Moved to England with her son Percy so that

he can go to school. Wrote novel Valperga in 1823. Also wrote novel The Last Man in 1826.

Published several more books like Perkin Warbeck (1830), Ledore (1835), Faulkner (1837), and Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844)

In 1851 Mary Shelley died of a possible brain tumor.

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"Mary Shelley Biography." UNet Users' Home Pages. Web. 12 Nov. 2009. <http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/shelleybio.html>.