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SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1797-1851)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 827 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1797-1851) , English writer, only daughter of William Godwin and his wife Mary Wollstonecraft, and second wife of the poet
Percy
  Bysshe Shelley, was born in London on the 3oth of August 1797. For the history of her girlhood and of her married life see, GODwIN, WILLIAM, and SHELLEY, P.B. When she was in Switzerland with Shelley and Byron in 1816 a proposal was made that various members of the party should write a romance or tale dealing with the supernatural. The result of this project was that Mrs Shelley wrote Frankenstein, Byron the beginning of a narrative about a vampyre, and Dr Polidori, Byron's physician, a tale named The Vampyre, the authorship of which used frequently
' It is further worthy of remark that the
young
  of C. variegata when first hatched closely resemble those of C. rutila, and when the former assume their first plumage they resemble their father more than their mother (P.Z.S., 1866, p. 15o).in past years to be attributed to Byron himself. Frankenstein, published in 1818, when Mrs Shelley was at the utmost twenty-one years old, is a very remarkable performance for so
young
  and inexperienced a writer; its main idea is that of the formation and vitalization, by a deep student of the secrets of nature, of an adult man, who, entering the world thus under unnatural conditions, becomes the terror of his species, a half-involuntary criminal, ,and finally an outcast whose sole resource is self-immolation. This romance was followed by others: Valperga, or the Life and Adventures of Castruccia, Prince of Lucca (1823), an historical tale written with a good deal of spirit, and readable enough even now; The Last Man (1826), a fiction of the final agonies of human society owing to the universal spread of a pestilencethis is written in a very stilted style, but possesses a particular
interest
  because Adrian is a portrait of Shelley; The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830); Lodore (1835), also bearing partly upon Shelley's biography, and Falkner (1837). Besides these novels there was the Journal of a Six Weeks' Tour (the tour of 1814 mentioned below), which is published in conjunction with Shelley's
prose
 -writings; and Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840-1842-1843 (which shows an observant spirit, capable of making some true forecasts of the future), and various miscellaneous writings. After the death of Shelley, for whom she had a deep and even enthusiastic affection, marred at times by defects of temper, Mrs Shelley in the autumn of 1823 returned to London. At first the earnings of her pen were her only sustenance; but after a while Sir Timothy Shelley made her an allowance, which would have been withdrawn if she had persisted in a project of writing a full biography of her husband. In 1838 she edited Shelley's works, supplying the notes that throw such invaluable light on the subject. She succeeded, by strenuous exertions, in maintaining her son
Percy
  at Harrow and
Cambridge
 ; and she shared in the improvement of his fortune when in 184o his grandfather acknowledged his responsibilities and in 1844 he succeeded to the baronetcy. She died on the
list
  of February 1851.


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