Mary Shalley

Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft was born on August 30, 1797; she was the daughter of two rebels of the 1790's William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.  Her mother died eleven days after her birth; she died from childbirth complications.  At the age of sixteen, she leaves to france with the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Shelley's first wife, whom he had abandoned for mary, drowned herself in the Serpentine River.  Mary and Percy married days after harriet's death.  Mary with her new family moved to the shores of the Lake Geneva, and there formed a gruoup of people that stayed up at night telling stories of scientifi and supernatural topics.  later one the grup members suggested the idia of having a contest to see who could write the scariest story among them.  Mary had a dream and realized she could used it as her story!  The novel Frankenstein was the result of the dream which mary had that summer.  Mary won the contest and later in 1818 Frankenstein was anonymously published, the novel was an instant success.  Mary had four children and only one lived beyond the age of three.  In june 1821, Mary almost died as she had a miscarriage of her fifth child and a month later shelley died in a boating accident at the age of twenty-nine in the Gulf of Spezia.  Mary never marry again and devoted the rest of her life to writing novels and traveling with her only son.  Mary Shalley died on February 1, 1851, and was buried with her parents at Bournemouth.