When was Mary Shelley born and where?
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in Somers Town, London on the 30th of August 1797. Her mother died just eleven days after giving birth to her from puerperal fever.
Questions about Mary Shelley
Short answers, pulled from the story.
Who did Mary Shelley elope with and when did they travel to France?
On the 28th of July 1814, Mary declared her love for Percy Shelley and eloped to France taking Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont with them. They traveled by donkey, mule, carriage, and foot through war-ravaged countryside before returning to England in September 1814.
What event inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein?
Between 2am and 3am on the 16th of June 1816, Mary experienced what she called her waking dream that became Frankenstein during a gathering at Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva. The group discussed galvanism and whether corpses could be reanimated while staying indoors due to a wet and stormy summer caused by volcanic eruptions in Indonesia.
How many children did Mary Shelley lose and when did they die?
Mary gave birth to a premature daughter who died on the 6th of March 1815 after only two months of life. Their daughter Clara died of dysentery at age one in Venice in September 1818, and William contracted malaria and died in June 1819 at three and a half years old in Rome.
When did Percy Shelley drown and how was his body handled?
Percy Shelley drowned when his sailing boat sank near Viareggio on the 8th of July 1822 during a storm. Ten days later, three bodies washed up on the coast between Livorno and Lerici where Trelawny cremated his corpse on the beach.