![]() This later had a strong influence on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Oliver Polidori, came up with The Vampyre. ![]() One evening, the group of young writers decided to have a contest telling horror stories. Mary was inspired to write her classic work. Percy began work on "Hymn To Intellectual Beauty" and "Mont Blanc". In terms of English literature, it was a great summer. ![]() They spent the summer near the famous poet Lord Byron. ĭuring May 1816, Mary and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley traveled to Lake Geneva. Shelley's father often had visitors like Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. ![]() She used her father's library and was often found reading by her mother's grave. During that time, Shelleys's stepmother thought Shelley did not need be educated. Clairmont already had two children and later had a son with Shelley's father. Shelley's father married Mary Jane Clairmont in 1801. Fanny Imlay was Wollstonecraft's daughter from an affair she had with a soldier. ![]() She later edited the poems of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley.Īfter her mother's death, Shelley lived with her older half-sister Fanny Imlay and their father. She was in her teens when she wrote the book. She is best known for writing the novel Frankenstein. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English author. ![]()
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