Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. [By M. W. Shelley.] by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Mary lived for another thirty years but she lost the promise that she had shown in the company of her brilliant husband and his friends, such as the poet Lord Byron. Only one of their four children lived very long and then, in 1822, when he was just thirty, Shelley was drowned. They settled in Italy but tragedy seemed to follow them. Her father, William Godwin, disowned her, but still she and Shelley were married in 1816. The two fell in love and eloped, despite Mary's age. ![]() He was destined to be one of the geniuses of English poetry. He was only twenty-one but was already unhappily married. As a young girl, she escaped into books and would often read by the side of her mother's tomb. Her step-sister was a depressive and later committed suicide and Mary had little in common with her step-brother or her half-brother. Her mother died giving birth to her and she was brought up by a remote father and a step-mother who hated her. The childhood of Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851), sounds rather like a dark fairy-tale. ![]()
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