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 Mary Shelley

[|www.solarnerigaer.com]        I'm sure you all have heard of the book __Frankenstein,__ but do you know who wrote the book? Well, if you don't then your in the right place! The author of __Frankenstein__ is Mary Shelley. Mary Shelley was born on August 30,1797. Her mother was Mary Wollestonecraft and her father was William Godwin. Mary's mother became ill and died ten days after Mary was born, even though her mother died Mary still was a lot like her. Mary loved to write, read, and be by herself and let her mind wonder just like her mother. Mary's father remarried as soon as he could to Mary Jane Clairmont. Mary Jane already had two childeren named Charles and Claire. Mary Shelley's stepmother didn't care for her and babied Claire, her step-sister. This made Mary very depperessed and miss her biological mother even though she had no memory of her. Since this was the case, Mary's father sent her to Scottland for five months and then he sent her back after she had been home for two months. Mary went to Scottland for two years. When Mary came back in 1812,she met a young man named Percy Shelley. Percy was a famous poet, but was having a lot of problems with his marriage. Mary and Percy fell in love that summer and become secert lovers. Since no one accepted their relationship, Mary and Percy ran away to Switzerland with Mary's step-sister Claire in 1814. After spending a year in Switzerland Mary and Percy went back to England to start a life. Claire decided to stay in Switzerland where she met Lord Byron. Mary soon became pregnant with her first child, which died two weeks after it's brith. Mary has three other childeren after that, but only one made it to adulthood. Mary and Percy went to vist Claire soon after their second child. One night Lord Byron challenged Mary, Percy, and Claire to write a horror story. That night Frankenstein, the monster, was born. Mary had a dream and wrote it down, which is where the idea of __Frankenstein__ came from, but Mary didn't finish __Frankenstein__ until 1819. In 1816 Mary's sister Fanny, who Mary loved very much, committed suicide. A few weeks later Percy's wife, Harrit, commited suicide. That Decmber Mary and Percy got married. On November 12, 1819 Mary gave birth to her last son, the only one that lives. Mary named him Percy Florence. Unfortunately that July, Percy, Mary's husband, drowned in a boating accident. Mary wrote several other books before her death on February 1, 1851.

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