Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”

There is a love story that binds a poet and a writer both English: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) and Mary Shelley (1797–1851)

Mary is the daughter of the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and grows up according to the libertarian principles of maternal ideology, Percy is married to Harriet, from whom he has children who will later be stolen from him. When they meet, Mary is seventeen, they fall in love, run away together and manage to get married only after his sudden widowhood. They give birth to many children of which only a few survive their parents. They find refuge on their…