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