Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin eloped with Percy Shelley when she was a teenager.
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Mary Shelley was the daughter of feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Mary Shelley briefly appears as a character (under her birth name of Mary Godwin) in THE STRESS OF HER REGARD.
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"The last man! Yes, I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me....At the age of 26 I am in the condition of an aged person--all my old friends are gone..."
"At first I thought but of a few pages or of a short tale; but Shelley urged me to develop the idea at greater length. I certainly did not owe the suggestion of one incident, nor scarcely of one train of feeling, to my husband, and yet but for his incitement it would never have taken the form in which it was presented to the world. From this declaration I must except the preface. As far as I can recollect, it was entirely written by him."
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The daughter of feminist and radical Mary Wollstonecraft and political philosopher William Godwin, Mary Shelley eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was only 16. The two traveled across Europe, and Mary eventually wrote a travel book about their flight. They married two years later, after Shelley's first wife drowned herself. Mary Shelley began FRANKENSTEIN in 1816 as part of a contest suggested by Lord Byron when the Shelleys were visiting him in Italy, and turned it into a full-length nov more...
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08/30/1797 London, Southern England, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, British Isles, Western Europe,
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