… After being challenged by Lord Byron to write a ghost story during a summer stay in Switzerland.ħ. Mary Shelley began to write Frankenstein at just 18 …Ħ. Her mother’s grave was handy for something a bit more above board: Mary Shelley learned to write her name by tracing the letters on the headstone.Ĥ. At 16, she eloped to France with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite the fact that he was already married.ĥ. Mary Shelley is said to have lost her virginity on her mother’s grave (described by one social media user as the most ‘goth’ thing ever).ģ. Mary Shelley’s mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist writer and activist.Ģ. Here are eleven facts about Mary Shelley’s life to get you started.ġ. Using diaries, letters and records, Fiona Sampson pieces together a woman who not only wrote one of the landmark works of the 19th century, but who survived emotional hardships with grace and stoicism, a woman with a keen intellect who strove to better herself academically despite setbacks and societal limitations, a woman who worked hard to keep her family together, even after losing children and her husband.Īll we will say now is read it, and get to know an extraordinary woman behind an extraordinary book. In Fiona Sampson’s new biography we get to know the woman behind the book.
This January saw the 200 year anniversary of Frankenstein, the great Romantic and Gothic work by Mary Shelley that has been replicated and adapted in books and on screen and stage countless times since its initial publication.
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