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Author of 'Frankenstein'.
Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Godwin's mother died when she was eleven days old; afterwards, she and her older half-sister, Fanny Imlay, were raised by her father. -
Around the age of sixteen.
Percy Shelley was married to Harriet Westbrook at the time and he liked the idea of free love. He was a twenty-one-year-old poet. -
Mary gave birth to a two-months premature baby girl, who was not expected to survive.
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In a waking dream, Mary Godwin conceived the idea for Frankenstein. She started writing in Schwitzerland, after a night of telling each other ghost stories.
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2nd child.
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Percy and Mary get married.
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3rd child born.
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She died shortly after arriving in Venice.
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Dies from cholera or typhoid infection.
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4th child. Only surviving child.
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Mary miscarried the 5th child.
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Percy and Edward Williams set out on the return journey to Lerici with their eighteen-year-old boatboy, Charles Vivian. They never reached their destination.
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Dies from puerperal fever. The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, probably caused by the brain tumour that was to kill her at the age of 53.