Shelley's Mary: A Life of Mary Godwin Shelley | About the Author

Like the real-life heroine of Shelley's Mary, Margaret Carver Leighton grew up in a learned family where history-making ideas were frequently discussed by important scholars. Leighton was born on December 20, 1896, in Oberlin, Ohio, to Dr. Nixon Carver, a college professor, and his wife, Flora Kirkendall Carver. Early in Leighton's life, her father obtained a position at Harvard University, and Leighton's earliest memories are of the tree-lined streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Like Mary Shelley, Leighton took great pleasure as a young girl in reading, writing, drawing, and...

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