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Birth
Mary Shelley was born in London. Her father, William Godwin and her mother Mary Wollstonecraft. -
Her mother died
Mary Shellys mother Mary Wollstonecraft died only 11 days after giving birth to Mary Shelly. She died because of Mary Shellys birth. -
Meets Percy
She meets the twenty-year-old poet Percy Shelly. They fall in love but Percy is already married. But they elope. She left England and went with Shelley to live on the continent. -
The idea of Frakenstein
On a holiday to Switzerland with Lord Byron and Shelley, Mary got the idea of writting Frakenstein. -
Frakenstein is finished
She wrote the novel while being overwhelmed by the suicides of her half-sister and Shelley's wife -
They moved to Italy
The couple moved to Italy. Three of their four children died. -
Percy Shelley dies
When Mary was twenty-four years old, her husband drowned durring a storm at the bay La Spezia. Now she only had her two-year-old son, William. -
"Valpegra"
Her work on a romance set in the fourteenth-century Italy -
"The last man"
Another succesfull work by Mary Shelley -
Mary dies
Mary Shelley died because of a brain-tumour at the age of 53.