Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
Early Life
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London on August 30, 1797, to the celebrated
feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the radical philosopher William Godwin. Ten days later, Wollstonecraft died of
puerperal fever, and for four years William raised his daughter and her half-sister Fanny
(Wollstonecraft’s daughter with Gilbert Imlay) alone. From infancy, Mary was in the
company not only of her philosopher father but also of his friends, among them the poet
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