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Mary Shelley/ Frankenstein. -Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, in London, in 1797. Somers TownLondonSomers TownLondon Her.

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1 Mary Shelley/ Frankenstein

2 -Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, in London, in 1797. Somers TownLondonSomers TownLondon Her father was the equally famous anarchist philosopher, novelist, journalist, and atheist dissenter William Godwin. anarchistphilosophernovelistjournalistatheistdissenterWilliam Godwin anarchistphilosophernovelistjournalistatheistdissenterWilliam Godwin

3 After courting a number of women, he met Mary Jane Clairmont, a widow with two young children. Mary hated her step-mother and had a bad relationship with her. Mary was well educated, but not in school. This was strange for the time. She was encouraged to write.

4 Mary married a famous poet named Percy Shelley.

5 Frankenstein Frankenstein was inspired by a bad dream that Mary had. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 19 years old. Frankenstein is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. Gothic novelRomanticGothic novelRomantic It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution Industrial RevolutionIndustrial Revolution

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