1. (1797-1851) English author who wrote the Gothic horror story Frankenstein or; The Modern Prometheus (1818)

2.  Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin born on 30 August 1797 - London, England 2 nd daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

3. Feminist - A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Had 2 children in her lifetime, Fanny Imlay, was born May 14, 1794. Unwed mother. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1797 The mother died of "child-bed“ fever 11 days later.

4.  Believed in alternative, free, education.  William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft became lovers.  Got pregnant: Wollstonecraft asked Godwin to marry her in  Eventually married BUT he was deeply critical of marriage in this instance the ‘goods’ outweighed the ‘evils’).

5. 1801 Father Remarried Mary Jane Clairmont. gained a stepsister, Claire. Claire and Mary would remain very close for the rest of their lives. Result: bitter times for Mary Cruel step mother Emotionally distant father consoled herself: mother’s graveside & Scotland Evil Stepmother?

6. Sweet Step-Sister Portrait By Aemilia Curran, 1819’ Claire Clairmont  half-sister,  ran off w/ Mary and Percy  to Lake Geneva  was present when Mary first made up the story of Frankenstein.  Love affair with Lord Byron daughter, Allegra, January 1817.

7. Mary’s Education  Tutors. Studied : parent’s writings literature and poetry Latin, French, and Italian. Enlightenment literary figures  William Blake  Samuel Taylor Coleridge  Charles Lamb.  1 st publication: a poem at the age of 10.

8. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY  political radical  free-thinker  He & 1st wife Harriet visited Godwin's London.

9.  Eloped: July 1814 @ 16  Godwin wont speak for the next 2 ½ years  Harriet, Percy’s 1 st wife, is pregnant with 2 nd child  Harriet gives birth in November 1814.

10.  1815 - Clara, born premature. Dies 2 weeks later.  1816 Harriet: suicide  Percy and Mary get married  1816- William (1816-1819)  1817- 2 nd daughter, Clara (1817-1819)  1819 – Percy Florence Shelley

11.  1822, nearly fatal miscarriage  Percy sailing  a sudden storm struck and it sank.  Percy’s body washed ashore  Mary compiles his writing in The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe (1824).

12.  1823 Mary returned to England w/son Percy.  Percy Bysshe’s father Sir Timothy Shelley provided an annual income  Percy, Jr. inherited estate and title in 1844  Mary: wrote numerous short stories, essays, poems, and reviews

13.  The Last Man (1826)  Perkin Warbeck (1830)  Ledore (1835)  Falkner (1837)  Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) Other works

14.  Bouts of illness beginning in1840’s  Died at home in London, age of 54 on 1 February 1851.  Buried in St. Peter’s Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

15.  What do you think drew Mary to Percy Shelley?  What do you think was the saddest part of her story? The best part?  How do you think her life impacted her writing of Frankenstein?

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