Assignment #1- Facts About Mary Shelley

Five Interesting Facts About Mary Shelley:

1. The idea for Frankenstein came to her as the result of a ghost story contest between Mary, her husband, the poet Lord Byron, and Dr. John Polidori. It came to her in a dream.
2. She was essentially motherless and raised by an intellectual...much like Victor Frankenstein and his monster.
3. She wrote her novel Frankenstein at the age of 19 in 1818
4. She kept her dead husband’s, poet Percy Shelley, heart wrapped in silk until she died.
5. On the first anniversary of her death, her box-desk was opened and they found locks of her dead children's hair, a notebook she had shared with Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a copy of his poem Adonaïs with one page folded round a silk parcel containing some of his ashes.