They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley's wife, Harriet. [5] In 1816, the couple and Mary's stepsister famously spent a summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori …

Nov 10, 2025 · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) is thought to have met the young Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812. Although he was married to another woman at …

Oct 23, 2025 · British author Mary Shelley is known for her horror novel ‘Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.’ Learn about her life and marriage to Percy Bysshe Shelley.

English novelist Mary Shelley is best known for writing Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) and for her marriage to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822).

Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822, poet and husband of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

Apr 29, 2025 · Mary met her future husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, that same year. She was still a child and he a married man, but two years later, his marriage was in trouble and she was older.

Shelley married Percy Bysshe Shelley on 30 December 1816, two years after they had eloped to the Continent, and after his first wife had committed suicide.

May 31, 2018 · Mary is only 16, and she is running away with Percy Bysshe Shelley, a man five years her senior who is not merely already married but the father of a young child.

Sep 28, 2020 · Mary Shelley met her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, in March 1814. Despite Percy having an estranged wife, Mary fell in love with the handsome poet. After only a few …

He had entered into an affair—his first romantic liaison—with Wollstonecraft, who at the time claimed to be married to Gilbert Imlay. In fact, she was Imlay's scorned lover and the mother …