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