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  Mary Shelley was born August 30, 1797 and died on February 1, 1851. When she was only eleven days old her mother died, leaving her in the care of her father William Godwin. He provided her with a great education in hopes that she would follow in his footsteps as a political philosopher. When Mary was seventeen she had relations with a married man by the name of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Soon after they met Mary got pregnant with his child, leaving her in a bad place. Around eight months later she had the baby premature and it died soon after. Two years then past and they still suffered from the lost of their premature daughter but got married in 1816 after Percy’s wife committed suicide.   That summer the newly couple spent the summer with Lord Byron, John William, and Claire Clairmont by Geneva, Switzerland. This is where Mary got her brilliant idea for her now famous book __Frankenstein__. Quitting Britain the Shelley’s headed for Italy where they had the second and third miscarriages, before having her only son Percy Florence.  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> In 1822 Mary’s husband died in his sinking boat during a storm at La Spezia. Returning to England she decided to teach her son to write and get a great career in writing. She spent her last year extremely sick, which was to believed to be from her brain tumor that was supposed to kill her at the age of fifty-three.