Mary Shelley Personal Contexts: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on the 30th of August 1797, the only child distinguished parents, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1759 - 1797), a famed author of the world's first feminist tract, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and William Godwin (1756 - 1836) a famous philosopher, political theorist and author of several political works and crime novels. Her mother however, lived not long after Mary's birth due to puerperal fever, dying ten days later. This …showed first 75 words of 1272 total…

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