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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, the writer of Frankenstein, was an English novelist who was the daughter of the British philosopher and novelist William Godwin and the British author and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary was born in London. Her mother died ten days after her birth. In 1812, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Harriet joined their circle. Before Mary was 17, she and Shelley were meeting secretly by her mother's grave in St Pancras churchyard. After Shelley's separation from Harriet in 1814, he and Mary eloped to the Continent. In the eight years before the poet's death, the couple lived an unconvent life, moving between Italy, England, and Switzerland. Harriet Shelley's suicide in December 1816 allowed Mary and Percy to marry. They had four children together, but only one, Percy Florence, survived his parents. The loss of their first child affected Mary profoundly, and seems to have shaped the themes of her first novel, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus ...