Mary shelley life biography



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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, was the only daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.

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  • Their high expectations of her future are, perhaps, indicated by their blessing her upon her birth with both their names. She was born on 30 August in London. The labor was not difficult, but complications developed with the afterbirth.

    Despite expert attention, her mother sickened from placental infection and died eleven days after her birth, on 10 September.

    Mary was brought up with her elder sister Fanny Godwin, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and her American lover Gilbert Imlay, who was adopted by Godwin and reared as his own child until the age of eleven when he disclosed her parentage to her.

    The family complications were considerably advanced in with Godwin's remarriage to his neighbor, the widowed Mary Jane Clairmont, which brought two further children, Charles and Claire Clairmont, into the househ