Mary Shelley Biography

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Mary Shelley Biography

Connections between work and life

Experienced many deaths in her life which she incorporates into frankenstein

That horror story became her best work also called Frankenstein

Mary's friends convinced her to write a horror story

Comparison to Victor

Both didn't receive much education from childhood

Loss of many family members

Mother and fathers had many influences

Victor's mothers death was dedicated to Mary's mothers death

Family

Married Percy Bysshe Shelly, a poet in 1816

Mother had many influences

Widowed at the age of 24

Two or Mary's children died from illness

Father, William Godwin, a philosopher

Mother, Mary Wollstonecraft

Accomplishments

1959-final novel, Mathilda published

1839-published a series of her late husbands poems along with a collection of his essays and writings

1837-published Falkner

1826-published The Last Man

1823-published her second novel, Valperga

1818- published first novel, Frankenstein which became a hit

Events leading to Frankenstein

Lost first child upon birth

Read many horror novels which inspired her to write her own

Traveled abroad Europe

Childhood

Educated herself with the books from her father's library

Shelley fell in love with writing to escape her home life

Her stepmother refused her to go to school even though her stepsister did

Her mother dies shortly after birth

Born in Somers Town, London in 1797