Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft died on September 10, 1779. She named her daughter Mary
Wollstonecraft Godwin. She was the child of the most famous literary marriage of the
eighteenth century. She was in good health and three years earlier had gave birth without
complications to a daughter she named Fanny. She decided to have this second baby at
home with just a midwife. Mary had not pushed the placenta out and Mrs. Blenkinsop had
to immediately call the doctor. Doctor Poignard didn’t wash his hands and pulled out the
placenta piece by piece. During this he gave her an infection in her uterus which killed her
ten days later.
Mary Godwin had access to her father’s entire library of old English authors. Her
father taught her to study by reading two or
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Benson who gave children half-hour lessons in singing
and reading music.
When Mary was thirteen her arm and hand became infected with a skin disease.
Doctor Cline recommended she be sent to Ramsgate. She stayed for six months in the
care of Mrs. Petman. During this time Mr. Godwin had purposely distanced himself from
her. Once married to his new wife, Godwin retired into his study and left the care
of everything in the household including the children to Mrs. Godwin. Mr. Godwin
appeared to really show any special affection to his only biological daughter.
When Mary returned from home at Christmas from Ramsgate the tension
between her and Mrs. Godwin was very high. Mary’s father began trying to find a way to
get her out of the house. On May 25th, 1812, he wrote to a friend, William Baxter, asking
that Mary live with his family for several months. When Baxter approved of her staying
she was sent off on June 7th. Living with the Baxter family Mary experienced complete
happiness she had hardly ever known. “The Baxter family were a large, loving, closely knit
group who provided Mary with both intimate companionship--she quickly became very
Mary indicates that things were fine and that they didn’t have any problems in the family until John returned
The events that started autumn 1766 and continued for several years tested Mary's resolve more than any other time. Her sister, Rebecca, had contracted smallpox in November
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Archibald, Mary’s father, died when she was two years old. Mary attended a small catholic school in Alexandria Virginia called The Academy for Young Ladies. The school left a great impact on Mary and she remained a devout catholic and southern sympathizer. At the age of seventeen, she married John Harrison Surratt; they settled on land John had inherited from his family in Neales, Maryland. They had a very unhealthy relationship from early on; they both had different religious views and John became an abusive alcoholic. Mary and John had three children, Elizabeth, Anna, and John Junior Surratt. Both Anna and John played very key roles throughout Mary’s trial and
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' Mary's heart was already with god and conventional values were not going to keep her a way from the life he had chosen for her.' (Mary MacKillop A tribute, 1995)
However, she arrived in Waiilatpu in December of 1837, which means she was pregnant during the last part of her journey. She gave no indications of being pregnant in her diary other than saying “For two or three days past I have felt weak, restless and scarcely able to sit on my horse.” The physical task of the journey however, made a statement like this common, even for women who were not pregnant.
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miscarriages and decided to keep the baby because she thought it was a gift from the heavens.
Motherhood was an expected part of the wife’s life. Woman would have a large number of babies right after each other although some babies would not survive. “High mortality rates must have overshadowed the experience of motherhood in ways difficult to
¨Dad however, wouldn’t talk about Mary Charlene...He was the one who found her body in the crib, and Mom, couldn't believe how much it shook him up…‘he was in shock or something, cradling her stiff little body in his arms... he screamed like a wounded animal’...He started having dark moods,staying out late and coming home drunk and losing jobs,¨(Walls 28).
In the 19th century, midwives became popular because many people preferred to give birth at home to avoid hospital’s disease and miasma. It was safe for them to give birth at home than in hospital. This was such an important event due to sanitization problem mortality rate went up.
On June 23rd, 1813 Harriet gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Elizabeth Ianthe and before the end of the very same year she became pregnant again. (Shmoop Editorial Team) Unfortunately for Harriet her marriage to Shelley had already began to fail.