Mary Shelley

Born in London in 1797, Mary Shelley was the daughter of feminist philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft and political philosopher William Godwin. As a child she immersed herself in her father’s extensive library and often read and wrote stories beside her mother’s grave. At 16 she began a romantic relationship with Percy Bysshe Shelley, a married poet and political radical.


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