Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) is thought to have met the young Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812. Although he was married to another woman at the time, she eloped with him to France in July 1814. The couple were married in December 1816, shortly after his first wife died by suicide. They had four children, only one of whom survived to adulthood. After Percy Shelley’s death in 1822, Mary Shelley returned to England and helped publicize his writings. (Legend has it that she also kept a relic of her husband’s body in her writing desk.) However, she is best known for her 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
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