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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley. By: Period G. Early life. 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. Early Adulthood.

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Mary Shelley

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  1. Mary Shelley By: Period G

  2. Early life • 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.

  3. Early Adulthood • 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

  4. Adulthood • 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.

  5. Adulthood cont • 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.

  6. Late Adulthood to Death • 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.

  7. Citied sources • Merriman, C.D. "Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Biography and Works." The Literature Network: Online classic literature, poems, and quotes. Essays & Summaries. The literature network, 2006. Web. 12 Nov. 2009. <http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_mary>. • "Mary Shelley Biography." UNet Users' Home Pages. Web. 12 Nov. 2009. <http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/shelleybio.html>.

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