Today in History |
August 30, 1797 |
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Godwin, was born on this day in 1797. Her mother died 11 days after her birth, and she was subsequently raised by her father who provided her a somewhat eccentric, but rich, education. She married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and traveled extensively through Europe. In 1816, the couple spent the summer near Geneva, Switzerland with Lord Byron, where she conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein.
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