The Life and Writing of Mary Shelley

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Mary Shelley was bourn Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, August 30, 1797, in London, England. She was the daughter of William Godwin, a political theorist, novelist, and publisher, and of Mary Wollstonecraft, a writer and early feminist thinker, who died of puerperal fever 10 days after her daughter's birth. As a child, Mary had little formal education and was tutored by her father, but nonetheless, Mary Godwin received an unusual and advanced education for a girl of the time. For six months in 1811, also attended a boarding school in Ramsgate, and shortly after was sent to stay with the family of the radical William Baxter, near Dundee, Scotland in June of 1812. Mary Godwin embraced her new spacious surroundings of Baxter's house and the companionship of his four daughters, and she returned n...

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