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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: / ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r ɑː f t / WUUL-stən-krahft, US: /-k r æ f t /-kraft; [2] née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. [3]
Shelley was born as the fourth child of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, his namesake, and his wife, author Mary Shelley. His elder siblings, consisting of a premature girl who died at a few weeks old and a brother and a sister who died in childhood, left him as the only surviving child after his mother suffered a miscarriage in 1822.
Mary Shelley revised this poem, completely altering the first two stanzas, when she included it in a posthumous collection of Shelley's works published in 1824. [14] [15] In Shelley's "Epipsychidion", some scholars believe that he is addressing Clairmont as his: [9] Comet beautiful and fierce. Who drew the heart of this frail Universe
Articles relating to the Shelley family, whose members were the Shelley baronets. Subcategories. ... Mary Shelley (2 C, 4 P) Percy Bysshe Shelley (3 C, 5 P)
The Shelleys were fond of Allegra, but Mary Shelley feared that neighbours would believe Percy Bysshe Shelley had fathered her as the truth about her relationship to Clairmont leaked out. William Godwin, Mary's father and Clairmont's stepfather, had immediately leapt to that conclusion when he learned of Allegra's birth. [3]
Byron arrived at Lake Geneva in May where he met and befriended the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley who was travelling with his future wife Mary Godwin (now better known as Mary Shelley). Byron settled at the Villa Diodati with his personal physician, John William Polidori, and Shelley rented a smaller house called "Maison Chapuis" on the waterfront ...
Born in Italy, Elizabeth Lavenza was adopted by Victor's family.In the first edition (1818), she is the daughter of Victor's aunt and her Italian husband. After her mother's death, Elizabeth's father—intending to remarry—writes to Victor's father and asks if he and his wife would like to adopt the child and spare her being raised by a stepmother (as Mary Shelley had unhappily been).
Sir Bysshe was married twice; firstly on 30 June 1752 [4] to Mary Catherine Michell (b. 1734 in Sussex, England), the daughter of Theobald and Mary Michell; [5] and secondly to Elizabeth Jane Perry on 17 August 1769. [6] Child from first marriage: Timothy Shelley (7 September 1753 – 24 April 1844); later Sir Timothy Shelley, 2nd Baronet