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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born
Maiden name- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin -
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Mary Shelley's life
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Mother Dies
Mary's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, dies shortly after giving birth to Mary, due to childbirth complications. -
Step-family gained
Mary's father, William Godwin, marries a widow named Mary Jane Clairmont, and she moves in with two of her own children, Charles and Claire Clairmont. -
Moves to the Baxtar family's home in Scotland. *NO EXACT DATE*
Mary's father sends her to live in Scotland to stay with the Baxtar family, to seperate Mary from her Step-Mother.
-Mary Clairmont saw no need to educate her step-daughter, but sent her own kids to school. -
Returns home in Scotland *NO EXACT DATE*
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Meets Percy Bysshe Shelley *NO EXACT DATE*
Mary meets Percy, and the are soon to fall in love.
But at the same time, Percy has a wife and one child, with another on the way. -
Elopes with Percy
Mary, 16 years old, runs off to Europe with Percy, and almost immediatly gets pregnant.
-Mary's father refuses to see his daughter for the next two and a half years. -
Returns to London
Mary is pregnant, and she is a social outcast because she ran off with Percy, who was a married man. -
Conceives "Frankenstein"
While on a summer holiday with Percy, Lord Byron, and Claire, they were stuck inside while it was raining and Lord Byron suggests a contest to see who can make the best scary story, and this is where Mary Shelley comes up with the idea of Frankenstein. -
Gives birth to son
Mary gives birth to her son William. -
Fanny Godwin dies
Mary's half-sister commits suicide with an overdose of laudanum. -
Harriet Westbrook dies *NO EXACT DATE*
Harriet Westbrook, Percy's wife, commits suicide by throwing herself itno London's Serpentine River, and she was pregnant with her third child. -
Mary and Percy get married
Percy and Mary Shelly get married, and she is pregnant with another child. -
Gives birth to Clara
Mary gives birth to their third child, Clara Everina. She dies a year and a half later. -
Frankenstein was published.
It was published anonomously. -
Mary Shelley dies
