2. Biography
Mary Shelley was born in 1797 in London.
Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story
writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer. One of her
most famous novels is Frankenstein. She also
edited and promoted the works of her husband, the
Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Shelley.
Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, teacher and
feminist philosopher, died only 11 days after her
birth, from fever.
3. Frankenstein
Shelley had travelled in the region of
Geneva, where much of the story takes place.
Mary, Percy and some of their friends decided to
have a competition to see who could write the best
horror story. After thinking for weeks about what
her possible storyline could be, Shelley dreamt
about a scientist who created life and was horrified
by what he had made.
4. Percy Shelley
Percy Shelley was born
in 1792 in England and
he died in 1822 in Italy.
He was one of the major
English Romantic poets.
He was Mary Shelley’s
husband.
5. In 1822, Percy drowned in a sudden storm while
sailing back from Leghorn (Livorno) to Lerici in
his schooner, Don Juan. Percy and Mary had one
child, but the child died soon and Mary became
ill, but she conceived again and had recovered by
the summer.
6. Interesting things about Mary
Shelley
• She was eighteen/nineteen when she wrote
Frankenstein.
• Her husband, her, and another couple (Lord
Byron and his wife) decided to play a game.
They each had to make up a scary story. This is
where Frankenstein was born, but she had a lot
of trouble thinking of something.
• She was a strong feminist and even wrote about
it.
• She knew Charles Darwin's grandfather.
