Shelley, Mary
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| Birthname | Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft | ||
| born on | 30 August 1797 at 23:20 (= 11:20 PM ) | ||
| Place | London, England, 51n30, 0w10 | ||
| Timezone | LMT m0w10 (is local mean time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   07°58'   27°51 Asc. 02°26'
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Biography
British writer, the author of "Frankenstein," "Castruccio," "Prince Of Lucca," 1824 and "The Last Man," 1826.
Mary was the daughter of two social reformers ahead of their time. Her feminist mother died at her birth and her father remarried, to Jane Clairmont who had a daughter, Claire. William Godwin was a part of an English liberal movement with his book, "Political Justice." The young poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the young men who agreed with his forward views and who began to frequent his salon in 1813.
Mary and Percy fell in love and eloped on 7/28/1814, fleeing to Switzerland by coach. The were accompanied by Mary's sister Claire and Percy's friend, Lord Byron and wandered across Europe before setting in Italy.
Mary had a female infant on 2/22/1915 which died on 3/06. She had two more children, in 1916 and 1917, which did not survive. By 1916, she was involved in writing "Frankenstein," and during the pleasant days in their villa, she and Percy and Lord Byron read their work for each other's review. Claire and Lord Byron became lovers and had a child, Allegra, on 1/12/1817. The child later dyed of typhus at age five, 4/19/1822.
When Percy's wife died, a suicide, Mary and Percy were married, 12/30/1816. They had another child, Clara, on 9/02/1817 who died at a year, 9/24/1818. Mary had a severe miscarriage on 6/16/1822.
Shelley's income stopped in 1821 as he owed money for the care of his children whom he'd had with Harriet, and his small trust went to that demand. On 7/08/1822, Percy drowned in a violent lake storm. Mary moved back to London, where she spent her grief in the editing of Percy's letters and poems, editing his works.
She wrote, "For eight years I communicated, with unlimited freedom, with one whose genius far transcending mine awakened and guided my thoughts.... Now I am alone - oh, how alone! The stars may behold my tears and the winds drink my sighs; but my thoughts are a sealed treasure, which I can confide to none. O my beloved Shelley!"
Mary had a friendship in 1927 with a poet, Tom Moore, but she never remarried and died on 2/01/1851, London, England.
Relationships
- spouse relationship with Shelley, Percy Bysshe (born 4 August 1792)
Events
- Other Relationship 28 July 1814 (Eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley)
- Relationship : Marriage 30 December 1816 (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
- Death of Mate 8 July 1822 (Shelley died in a lake storm)
- Death, Cause unspecified 1 February 1851 (Age 53)
- Family : Change in family responsibilities 1815 (Child born)
- Family : Change in family responsibilities 1816 (Child born)
- Family : Change in family responsibilities 1817 (Child born)
Source Notes
Barbara Lynne Devlin quotes MS magazine "recorded by her father in his diary."
Biography: "Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley," edited by Betty T. Bennett, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Categories
- Vocation : Science : Biology
- Family : Relationship : Widowed (Husband killed in lake storm)
- Notable : Book Collection : Profiles Of Women
- Family : Parenting : Kids -Traumatic event (All three kids died)
- Family : Relationship : Mate - Noted (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
- Family : Relationship : Sexual chemistry (Passionate love affair with Shelley)
- Family : Relationship : Cohabitation more than 3 yrs (Eloped two years before they married)
- Notable : Famous : Historic figure (Creator of Frankenstien)
- Family : Childhood : Sibling circumstances (One step-sister)
