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Maiden name- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
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Mary's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, dies shortly after giving birth to Mary, due to childbirth complications.
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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.
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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. -
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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. -
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. -
Mary is pregnant, and she is a social outcast because she ran off with Percy, who was a married man.
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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.
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Mary gives birth to her son William.
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Mary's half-sister commits suicide with an overdose of laudanum.
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Harriet Westbrook, Percy's wife, commits suicide by throwing herself itno London's Serpentine River, and she was pregnant with her third child.
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Percy and Mary Shelly get married, and she is pregnant with another child.
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Mary gives birth to their third child, Clara Everina. She dies a year and a half later.
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It was published anonomously.
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