Although they attempted to get custody of Percy’s two children by Harriet ... within Frankenstein is the story of its author, ...

3. Mary shocked her father by eloping with Percy Shelley When Mary fell in love with Shelley, he was married with two children. She appalled her father by running away with the poet, marrying him ...

Harriet Shelley later took her own life, an event that haunted Mary, and she and Percy eventually ... She and Percy lost several children in infancy, and within just four years of her famous ...