Marry Shelly
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London,
England. She was destined to live an extraordinary life. Her parents were
two of the most noted freethinkers of the Enlightenment era. Her father,
William Godwin, was a celebrated philosopher and historian. He was known
for overeating and borrowing money who would give him a loan. He didn?t
have much time for anything but his philosophical ideas. He met his match
in Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary?s mother. She was every bit as much a radical
thinker as Godwin. She declared herself independent at the age of 21. She
and her sisters ran a school in France, where she had an affair with an army
captain and had her first child, Fanny, out of wedlock. After being
abandoned, she and Fanny moved back to England and attempted suicide.
She began writing. She was well-known for her revolutionary feminist
writings. Wollstonecraft and Godwin met a dinner party at Godwin?s home
and the two began an affair. Wollstonecraft was five months pregnant when
she married Godwin. Although Godwin and Wollstonecraft didn?t agree with
the whole marriage thing, they wanted Mary?s
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