"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."
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