Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The author of booksSpecializing in Gothic

Novels and poems

The author of booksSpecializing in Gothic

Novels and poems

An Auspicious Beginning

Mother: Mary Wollstonecraft Father: William Godwin

The Dawning of a Prodigy

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on Aug. 30, 1797 in London.

Mary Wollstonecraft then died 10 days later, from child birth

A child tainted forever

Father remarried to Mary Jane Clairmont

Her step mom was very cruel, resulting in more abstractly dark ideas

She got educated from her father’s circle of friends

A teen on the escapeA teen on the escape

Met husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, in 1813 when she was 16

Ran to Switzerland and France with him

Daughter born, then died shortly in 1815

Son then born in 1816, lived till 3

Met husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, in 1813 when she was 16

Ran to Switzerland and France with him

Daughter born, then died shortly in 1815

Son then born in 1816, lived till 3

The humble antecedent of a phenomenon

Lord Byron challenged her to write a ghost story

Wrote Frankenstein in 1816 Also married Percy Bysshe Shelley on Dec.

30. 1816

Supernova Supernova

No other story get as much commercial success as Frankenstein

Later took an interest in college with dead frog’s muscles twitching

She died at age 54 , a vegetarian to the end

No other story get as much commercial success as Frankenstein

Later took an interest in college with dead frog’s muscles twitching

She died at age 54 , a vegetarian to the end

Almost Exceedingly Enlightening Sources

http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_mary/

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mshelley.htm

bodley.ox.ac.uk

eric.b.olsen.tripod.com

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