Facts Mary and Percy Shelley's first child, a girl, died when she was only a few days old, in 1815. Mary's half-sister Fanny committed suicide, and soon after Percy's wife did as well, leaving Mary and Percy free to marry. Mary and Percy Shelley married in December 1816. In 1818 Frankenstein , or the Modern Prometheus was published anonymously. Mary and Percy moved to Italy, and they had two more children that did not survive. In 1819 their fourth child Percy Florence was born. He was the only one of their four children to survive and grow to adulthood. In 1822 Percy Shelley died in a drowning accident while sailing in the Gulf of Spezia. Mary Shelley was a widow at 24. She continued to write in an effort to support herself and her child. Mary Shelley's novel Valperga : Or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio , Prince of Lucca , was published in 1823. Mary Shelley's novel The Last Man was published in 1826. ...
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