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Her father was William Godwin, a leading political and moral radical in England. Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, the first great English feminist, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Her mother died of puerperal fever 11 days after Mary's birth. |
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| 1801 | Her father marries Mary Jane Clairmont. | |
| 1812 | Mary meets the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Harriet Westbrook. | |
| 1814 | Mary and Shelley, accompanied by Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, elope. | |
| 1815 | Mary's premature daughter dies. | |
| 1816 |
On January 24, a son, William, is born. On December 10, Harriet Shelley drowns. On December 30, Mary and Shelley wed. |
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| 1817 | A daughter, Clara, is born | |
| 1818 |
On March 11 Frankenstein is published. Clara dies on September 24. |
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| 1819 |
Son William dies on June 7. Son Percy, the only child to survive, is born on November 12. |
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| 1822 | On July 8, Percy Shelley drowns. | |
| 1826 | Mary publishes The Last Man, a novel of the future in which a worldwide plague wipes out all but one man. | |
| 1839 | Mary's editions of Shelley's poetry and prose are published. | |
| 1851 | Mary Shelley dies |
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SciFi Guide
© 2002 Agatha Taormina
Last Revised:
March 15, 2002