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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.
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  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.
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  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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