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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is born in Somers Town, London, in England
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Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley's mother, died.
She is considered Britain's first feminist -
Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin, remarried Mary Jane Clairmont
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Mary returns from an educational stay in Scotland, and has her first meeting with one of her father's political disciples, Percy Bysshe Shelley. He is five years her senior, and unhappily married to Harriet Westbrook. Though Percy and Harriet have a child the following year, Percy spends an increasing amount of time away from his family and in the company of William Godwin.
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Sixteen-year-old Mary returned from a second trip to Scotland, and again met twenty-one-year-old Percy Shelley.
They used to take frequent walks together to Mary Wollstonecraft's grave in St. Pancras graveyard.
They confessed their love for each other.
Percy Shelley informed William Godwin of his love for Mary, as well as their plans to travel abroad together. -
Mary, Percy Shelley, and Claire Clairmont (Mary's stepsister) left for France
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Mary gave birth to her first daughter two months prematurely. The baby died twelve days later.
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Mary gave birth to her first son, a boy named William
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Mary, Percy Shelley, and Claire Clairmont begin another trip: this time, to Lake Geneva, Switzerland, where they stay with Lord Byron.
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After an intense waking dream at Lord Byron's villa, Mary begins writing her first novel, Frankenstein.
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Mary and Percy got married and remained in London
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Mary and Percy Shelley began their work on History of a Six Weeks' Tour. The work was a travel narrative compiled from letters, poems, and journals from their time in France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, and Lake Geneva.
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Mary gave birth to a third child, Clara.
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manuscriptThe Modern Prometheusis
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Mary and Percy decided to move to the European country, where they stayed for five years.
In Italy Clara, Mary's daughter, died of dysentery.
Mary underwent depression, reason which became cause of marriage crisis.
She also got pregnant and had a baby boy: Percy Florence Shelley. -
Percy died when his boat sank on the coast. Mary was devastated.
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Mary wrote her post-apocalyptic masterpiece 'The Last Man'.
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Valperga or 'The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucco', by Mary, was published. Valperga is a historical novel set in the same time period as her short story, "A Tale of the Passions"
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Mary published some of her husbands work in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and her own work: 'The Last Man', 'The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron', 'The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck',
'Falkner', 'Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France' -
Mary, Percy Florence Shelley, and his friends travel through France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.
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Mary Shelley died at the age of 53 from a suspected brain tumor. She was buried between her parents at St. Peter's Church in Bournemouth.
