Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English
The wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley was a notable English novelist, best known for writing the novel Frankenstein. - AsNotedIn
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- Mother Mary Wollstonecraft
The wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley was a notable English novelist, best known for writing the novel Frankenstein. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1797/08/30 | In Somers Town, London, Mary Wollstonecraft gives birth to her second daughter, Mary. Although the delivery appears to go well, the placenta has broken apart during the birth and has become infected. | Born | Somers Town, London | ||||
| 1814/07/28 | Accompanied by Claire Clairmont, Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Shelley elope to France. William Godwin refuses any communication with his daughter for the next two and a half years. | Bride | Marriage of Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Bysshe Shelley | ||||
| 1816/06/16 | Mary Wollstonecraft begins writing Frankenstein as part of a ghost story competition at Lord Byron's residence in Lake Geneva, Switzerland. | Author | Frankenstein (book) | Canton Geneva | Switzerland | ||
| 1816/12/30 | Mary Wollstonecraft marries Percy Bysshe Shelley at St Mildred's Church, Bread Street, London (lost). Mary's father, William Godwin, and her step-mother Mary Jane Claremont Godwin, Leigh Hunt and his wife Marianne attend the small and informal ceremony. | Bride | Marriage of Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Bysshe Shelley | ||||
| 1817/05/14 | Mary Shelley completes her novel "Frankenstein". | Author | Frankenstein (book) | ||||
| 1818/01/01 | With a preface written by Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is published anonymously by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones. The run is 500 copies in three volumes, the standard "triple-decker" format. | Author | Frankenstein (book) | ||||
| 1823/08/11 | "Frankenstein" 2nd edition is published in 2 volumes and credits Mary as author. | Author | Frankenstein (book) | ||||
| 1828/04/11 | In Paris, Mary Shelley meets novelist Prosper Merimee, General Lafayette and others through Harriet and Julia Garnett's circle of friends. Contracting smallpox, Shelley return's to England six weeks after she leaving. | Guest | Marquis Faubourg Saint Honore | Paris | |||
| 1851/02/01 | Mary Shelley dies at 24 Chester Square in London, of what her physician suspects to be a brain tumor. | Died | Shelley Terrace, Chester Square | London | |||
| 1851/02/08 | Mary Shelley's mortal remains are buried between her parents at St Peter's Church in Bournemouth, England. | In Memoriam | Church Of St Peter | Bournemouth |
1 Creative Work by Mary Shelley »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| Frankenstein (book) | Author | Novel | 1818/01/01 |
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