Mary Shelley Outrageous Woman

Mary Shelley was born to a woman’s rights advocate. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft died when Mary was two weeks old. Her father raised her to be independent like her mother. This was in the early 1800’s, so an odd practice at this time. Mary fell in love with a married poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. His wife committed suicide when Mary got pregnant by him. Mary Shelley edited and promoted her husband’s works. Two of their three children died at young ages, and Percy drowned. Mary wrote The Modern Prometheus in 1818. One of the first recognized works of science fiction. You might recognize it better by its other name. Frankenstein Which she penned when she was eighteen years old.