CONTEXT

Question 1

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein as a ghost writing competition

Question 2

frankenstein was written in the summer of 1816

Question 3

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born on August 30, 1797, in London.

Question 4

Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a feminist tract encouraging women to think and act for themselves.

Question 5

Wollstonecraft died 11 days after giving birth to Mary, leaving her daughter in the care of her husband, William Godwin.

Question 6

In 1814 Mary met Percy Bysshe Shelley, as a teen, a dashing young poet.

Question 7

In 1814, they ran away together for a tour of France, Switzerland, and Germany—Mary escaping her family and Percy his wife.

Question 8

Harriet, pregnant with Percy’s child, drowned herself in London in November of 1816.

Question 9

Mary remained unmarried.

Question 10

Mary also lost her sister to suicide

Question 11

Percy edited Mary’s manuscript for Frankenstein.

Question 12

Frankenstein was published on 1st January 1818.

Question 13

From 1815 to 1819, three of her four children died in infancy.

Question 14

In 1822, Percy drowned off the shore of Tuscany, leaving Mary a widow and single mother.

Question 15

Serious illness plagued Mary, and she died in London in February 1851.