On this day in 1797,
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly (1797-1851), author of Frankenstein was born in Somers Town, London.
Mary Shelley , was
Percy Bysshe Shelley's second wife. She was the daughter of
William Godwin and
Mary Wollstonecraft, who died whilst having Mary. She never forgave herself, for she believed, having caused her mother's death. She was brought up mainly by a stepmother and
met Shelley when she was 15 years old. She went with him to Switzerland, where she started to write her most famous work
Frankenstein or the Modem Prometheus, and married him in 1816.
It was generally a happy marriage. After Shelley was drowned in 1822 she found companionship with
Byron in Italy. Returning to England when Byron's affections for her cooled, she was faced with the difficulties of bringing up her son, Percy. When Shelley's father. Sir Timothy, died, however, she became prosperous. She also wrote
The Last Man (1826), which dealt with the destruction of the human race by an epidemic.
She died of a brain tumour at the age of 53 at Chester Square in London, England on 1st February 1851 and was buried in St. Peter's Church,
Bournemouth(1), Dorset, England. Her son Sir Percy having settled at
Boscombe Manor. Also buried at St Peter's is the heart of Mary's husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, brought back from Italy, and her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, their remains having been moved there from Old St Pancras Church.
(1) Historically Bournemouth was part of Hampshire, with Poole just to the west of the border between the two counties. At the time of the 1974 local government re-organisation, it was considered desirable that the whole of the Poole/Bournemouth urban area should be part of the same county)
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On this day in 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly (1797-1851), author of Frankenstein was born in Somers Town, London.
met Shelley when she was 15 years old. She went with him to Switzerland, where she started to write her most famous work Frankenstein or the Modem Prometheus, and married him in 1816.
She died of a brain tumour at the age of 53 at Chester Square in London, England on 1st February 1851 and was buried in St. Peter's Church, Bournemouth(1), Dorset, England. Her son Sir Percy having settled at Boscombe Manor. Also buried at St Peter's is the heart of Mary's husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, brought back from Italy, and her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, their remains having been moved there from Old St Pancras Church.
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The Priest’s House Museum in Wimborne Minster will be hosting an afternoon of storytelling with Tony Horitz on Tuesday 24 August as part of ‘The Sting in the Tale – a festival of stories’.
