Percy Florence Shelley

"Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet (12 November 1819-5 December 1889) was the son of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Frankenstein author, Mary Shelley. His middle name, Florence, came because he was born in Florence in Italy. Shelley moved back to England with his mother in 1822, his father having drowned off the Italian coast. He joined Harrow School in Middlesex in 1832, and went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1837."

Source-http://www.freebase.com/view/en/percy_florence_shelley

-Sherene Boodram

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The branch of the Shelley family to which the poet Percy Bysshe belonged traces its pedigree to Henry Shelley of Worminghurst, Sussex, who died in 1623. These Worminghurst or Castle Goring Shelleys are of the same stock as the Michelgrove Shelleys, who trace up to Sir William Shelley, judge of the common pleas under Henry VII,then to a member of parliament in 1415, and to the reign of Edward I, or even to the epoch of the Norman Conquest. The Worminghurst branch was a family of credit, but not of special distinction, until its fortunes culminated under the above-named Sir Bysshe."

Source-http://www.nndb.com/people/854/000024782/

-Sherene Boodram

After Mary Wollstonecraft's death, William Goodwin published several works that she was working on before her death. He published a volume of The Posthumous Works in addition to his own Memoirs of Mary. It was uncommon, but at the end of the book, he wrote about Mary's life, including information about her love affair and betrayal, her daughter's illegitimate birth, her suicide attempts and many other things. Mary Wollstonecraft's death was used to "disprove claims of women's equality".

(Source: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/wollstonecraft/a/experience4.htm)

-Gabbi Firrincieli

Mary Shelley's sister, Claire Clairmont, lived with her and Percy Shelley for a few years becuase of their close relationship. It was said that they were close becuase Claire's 'liveliness and sense of adventure balanced well with Mary's kindness and gentleness'. While travelling together, Mary and Claire learned Latin, Greek, read about history, literature and praticed letter and journal writing. Claire's musical voice inspired poetry from Lord Byron and Percy Shelley. (Source: http://ocw.nd.edu/political-science/mary-wollstonecraft-and-mary-shelley/biographies-1/claire-clairmont)

-Gabbi Firrincieli

Percy Shelley wrote his most ambitious poem in the summer of 1817 called “the Revolt of Islam”. In this poem, the plot centers on two characters that start a revolution during the time of the Ottoman Empire. “This work demonstrated how Shelley had come to a mature insight into the complex relationship between good and evil”. In this work, he identified and aligned himself strongly with the notion of atheism.
Source: http://www.notablebiographies.com/Sc-St/Shelley-Percy.html
-Gabbi Firrincieli

John William Polidori, a friend of Mary Shelley.

"Dr. John Polidori's short story "The Vampyre," first published in New Monthly Magazine in 1819, was the first vampire story in English prose. It inspired a surge of popular interest in vampires, essentially creating the now-familiar image of the vampire as a seducer, an irresistible synthesis of sex and death. Although Polidori is the author of "The Vampyre," the original story idea is not his own. It came about during a gathering of writers, including Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, while Dr. Polidori was serving as Byron's traveling physician. In June of 1816, the authors, trapped inside due to bad weather, challenged each other to write ghost stories. Mary Shelley's story developed into the novel Frankenstein, while Polidori's own fragment became his novel Ernestus Berchtold; or, The Modern Oedipus, published in 1819."

-Sherene Boodram

Source-http://victorian-fiction.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_vampyre_by_john_william_polidori

Mary Wollstonecraf, Mary Shelley's mother.

"At the age of nineteen Mary Wollstonecraf went out to earn her own livelihood. In 1783, she helped her sister Eliza escape a miserable marriage by hiding her from a brutal husband until a legal separation was arranged. The two sisters established a school at Newington Green. Mary Wollstonecraft was a radical in the sense that she desired to bridge the gap between mankind's present circumstances and ultimate perfection. She was truly a child of the French Revolution and saw a new age of reason and benevolence close at hand. Mary undertook the task of helping women to achieve a better life, not only for themselves and for their children, but also for their husbands. Of course, it took more than a century before society began to put her views into effect."

-Sherene Boodram Source-http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/wollstonecraft.html

The story of Frankenstein was started in the summer of 1816. Lord Byron and Mary Shelley’s husband inspired her to write the story. When she was at Eton College, Mary Shelley became interested in Luigi Calvani’s experiments dealing with whether or not electric shocks would make dead frog’s muscles twitch. Byron and Shelley talked about these experiments and with his help, she was able to finish the story within a year. “In her ‘Introduction’, Mary Shelley said that she got the story from a dream in which she saw “the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with a uneasy, half vital motion."” (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mshelley.htm) With Lord Byron’s help, she was not only able to push herself to complete the novel but she also was very informed on what she was writing about which is shown by her interest with the electric shocks concerning dead frogs.
-Gabbi Firrincieli

Mary Shelley clearly had Percy ( husband ) on her mind when she wrote Frankenstein. Percy influenced Mary in many way, the death of their son in William in 1819 helped him to write some of his greatest poetry:"Stanzas" Written in Dejection near Naples. In which he poor his emotion out of the death of his son. In one section of the poem he say es "I could lie down like a tired child, and weep away the life of care.In that ex cert i think was trying to let his audience not only read how he felt, but share some of his most intimate feelings that a farther could have.
(SOURCE) www.poetryseeker.org

Mary shelley husband was famous for his romantic poems and qoutes, he tried to invite mary into the " free world has he called it. I believe that his free sprited way help endorse mary shelly novels. Percy has a qoute that I feel stands out greatly in Mary book novel " Frankestein" ( Fear not for the future, weep not for the past). I think she used that qoute in the book when Dr Frankenstein tried to argue his point that science is need of chnage. (source) aztec.com

Mary Shelley was inspired by her close family members. Her Husband Percy B Shelley help influence her to finish the novel. Mary was an outgoing person, she had many ambitions in her life. Marty took the challenges that was offered to her by Lord Byron to write the novel Frankenstein. Her success was well encouraged by her Husband. Mary Shelly was not only a powerful women but a powerful Author, which keep her audiences propel to read what would happen next. ( source) chapter 1 of novel , preface

Nicole Green

Mary Shelley’s father influenced her throughout her life. At an early age, because her mother died, her father was left raising her. Mary Godwin received little formal education but her father tutored her in a lot of different subjects. William Godwin would take her and her step-siblings on educational trips and in addition to that, they would have access to his library. Throughout this, they would meet with different people of influence including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a romantic poet and Aaron Burr, former vice president of the U.S. Mary Shelley is said to have received an unusual and advanced education for a girl of the time. Her father described her at fifteen as "singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything she undertakes almost invincible”.
–Gabbi Firrincieli

The Beautiful Claire Clairmont

Claire Clairmont is Mary Shelley's stepsister. They both have the same father (William Godwin). They are eight months apart and eventually became best friends. Both Claire and Mary wanted to be recognized. Claire was an excellent singer and later on, ran away with Mary & Percy Bysshe Shelley. They couldn't take conditions being at home. They got sick of their father being in debt. Both Mary and Claire wandered across Europe. One night, they both decided to tell each other ghost stories. This very moment inspired Mary Shelley to write "Frankenstein". She found a lover who was named Lord Byron . They had a daughter named Allegra, who eventually died at a every young age in a convent. She kept many journals that can still be read online today. She died March 19th 1879, 28 years after Mary Shelley's death.

-Amanda Denett

George Gordon Byron also known as Lord Byron

"Lord Byron is the person that challenged Mary Shelley and his other guests to write a horror story, the summer that she and her husband visited with him.Which led to Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein. He was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond. Lord Byron's notability rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured aristocratic excesses, huge debts, numerous love affairs, and self-imposed exile."

Source - http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/byron.htm

-Sherene Boodram

William Godwin

"Mary Shelley's father, William Godwin, was the founder of philosophical anarchism. He epitomised the optimism of events in France at the time he began writing, Godwin looked forward to a period in which the dominance of mind over matter would be so complete that mental perfectibility would take a physical form, allowing us to control illness and ageing and become immortal. His moral theory is often described as utilitarian."
Source - http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRgodwin.htm

-Sherene Boodram

Mary Shelley’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a writer who was strongly influenced by Thomas Paine, who was a radical during the 1770s. Mary Wollstonecraft was a feminast who argued that women deserved equal rights. When she moved to London in the late 1780s, she became an admired professional writer and editor who wrote about the rights of women and children. In 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote an essay "A Vindication of the Rights of Men", which was based on her reaction to the French Revolution. That essay influenced her most famous feminist social study that was written two years later, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman".



-Gabbi Firrincieli

Mary Shelley husbands name was Percy Bysshe Shelley. He was famous for his romantic poetry.

He and Shelley elope when they were 16 years old. Which in those days were very common. Her husband helped influence her by showing her to the free love community. This was an community in which several patterns shared each other. Today those groups of people call themselves swingers.

Percy experienced some form of abuse from his dad, and was teased at school for it. He developed the name Mad Shelley, however he prove himself as intelligent student.

Nicole Green

Mary Shelley

"Marry Shelley was born to two great intellectual rebels of the 1970’s, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, but was raised by her father and stepmother after the death of her mother ten days after her birth. They had high expectations for her and this showed that she was destined to be someone of great intelligence. She was not formally educated, but she read many of her mother's books and absorbed the intellectual atmosphere created by her father and visitors to their house. Mary's favorite retreat was Wollstonecraft's grave in the St. Pancras churchyard, where she went to read and write, and eventually, to meet her lover, Percy Shelley. Mary was married to Percy Shelley in an attempt to gain custody of their children. In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley and 19-year-old Mary visited the poet Lord Byron at his villa beside Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Stormy weather frequently forced them indoors, where they and Byron's other guests sometimes read from a volume of ghost stories. One evening, Byron challenged his guests to write one themselves. Mary's story became Frankenstein. Mary’s life was filled with turmoil and sadness, ranging from death to fertility problems."

Source-http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/mshelley.html

-Sherene Boodram

William Godwin

Mary Shelley’s father, William Godwin was a journalist and political philosopher who is said to be the founder of philosophical anarchism. He wrote two famous political science novels during the time when the French Revolution was going on in the 1790s. In his book, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, written in the 1790s, he argued that the government is a corrupting force in society. Some of the most important things that he wrote were called Political Justice, Caleb Williams and Thoughts on Man.

-Gabbi Firrincieli

MARY SHELLEY

From 1801 to 2010 women have been raisen kids on there own. Mary mom died when she had some complication in child birth.Her dad decided to remarry just months after her death.some old age men are just like modern day men.

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"The marriage does not last long as Mary dies six months later of complications from the birth of their daughter".

nicole green (source) people.brandies.edu