Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, most commonly known for writing the legendary Frankenstein, was born in London in 1797. ... Frankenstein relates to Mary and how she felt about her relationship with her father, and the outside world. Shelley wrote the book at eighteen years of age and it was published when she was twenty-one. The understanding of Mary’s childhood experience, in addition to her husband’s influence, clarifies how one could make the correlation of her life and to Frankenstein, or the “Modern Prometheus.” Both Mary’s mother and father were authors. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women and The Wrongs of Women. ... Unfortunately, Mary’s mother died ten days after the delivery of Shelley due to puerperal fever. Shelley’s father, William Godwin thought of social institutions, such as marriage, as radical ideas. ... In 1801, Godwin remarried a woman whom Mary never accepted (Unknown author 1). Going through a childhood motherless and with a father who showed no compassion makes it is easy to see why Mary was forced to mature at such a young age. As a young girl, Mary was left independently to educate herself. Mary’s only source of education was to observe and listen to her father and his intellectually gifted friends.