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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in England on August 30, 1797. Her parents were two celebrated liberal thinkers, William Godwin, a social philosopher, and Mary Wollstonecraft, a women's rights advocate. Eleven days after Mary's birth, her mother died of puerperal fever. Four motherless years later, Godwin married Mary Jane Clairmont, bringing her and her two children into the same household with Mary and her half-sister, Fanny. Mary's idolization of her father, his detached and rational treatment of their bond, and her step-mother's preference for her own children created a tense and awkward home. Mary's education and free-thinking were encouraged, so it should not surprise us today that at the age of sixteen she ran off with the brilliant, nineteen-year old and unhappily married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley became her ideal, but their life together was a difficult one. Traumas plagued them: Shelley's wife and Mary's half-sister both committed suicide; Mary and Shelley wed shortly after he was widowed but social disapproval forced them from England; three of their children died in infancy or childhood; and while Shelley was an aristocrat and a genius, he was also moody and had little money. Mary conceived of her magnum opus, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, when she was only nineteen when Lord Byron suggested they tell ghost stories at a house party. The resulting book took over two years to write and can be seen as the brilliant creation of a powerful but tormented mind. The story of Frankenstein has endured nearly two centuries and countless variations because of its timeless exploration of the tension between our quest for knowledge and our thirst for good. Shelley drowned when Mary was only 24, leaving her with an infant and debts. She died from a brain tumor on February 1, 1851 at the age of 54. (Bowker Author Biography) — biographie de Frankenstein [Chefs d'oeuvre universels, Gallimard jeunesse]… (plus d'informations)
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(ita)Please don't combine Shelley with Mary Shelley. Yes, some people will have entered books this way, but it more commonly refers to her husband the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, with whom "Shelley" should also not be combined.
(eng)Please don't combine Shelley with Mary Shelley. There is more than one author with that surname. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the author of "Frankenstein". Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the author of "A vindication of the rights of woman" and has a separate author page.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley est née à Londre, fille de deux intellectuels et écrivains anglais majeurs, Mary Wollstonecraft et son mari William Godwin. Elle tomba en amour avec Percy Bisshe Shelley, un homme marié et père, et scandalisa la société en s'enfuyant avec lui en 1814. Deux ans plus tard, ils étaient mariés et en 1818, elle publia son oeuvre la plus célèbre, son premier roman: Frankenstein ou le Prometheus Moderne. Elle écriva aussi plusieurs autres romans, incluant Valperga (1823) et le Dernier Homme (1826), en plus de plusieurs nouvelles, histoires courtes, poèmes, pièces de théâtre, essais et articles pour les périodiques de l'époque, livres de voyage, et une biographie de son mari. Au moment de la mort de Shelley en 1822, elle était vue comme une nouvelliste majeure mariée à un poète de petite envergure, bien qu'elle passa 30 ans à promouvoir son travail à lui afin de lui permettre d'atteindre une renom à l'épreuve du temps.
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Please don't combine Shelley with Mary Shelley. There is more than one author with that surname. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the author of "Frankenstein". Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the author of "A vindication of the rights of woman" and has a separate author page.
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