FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Question
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Through a friend
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Mary had an affair with him
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He and Percy went to school together
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Through Percy’s mistress, who later became involved with Lord Byron
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Detailed explanation-1: -In March 1814, after returning to England from her second visit to the Baxters, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin met Percy Bysshe Shelley, a fan of her father’s who had become a frequent visitor to the Godwin home.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812 and ran off with him to France in July 1814.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shelley is a young poet who admires Mary’s father. He is five years older than Mary and already married to Harriet Westbrook. Mary and Percy Shelley soon fall in love. stepsister Claire Clairmont goes with them, despite her mother’s rage.
Detailed explanation-4: -Byron continued to be close to Percy, who often visited him until Shelley died in 1822. Claire had Byron’s child shortly after the 1816 polycule split up and named her Alba. Byron asked for the child to be sent to him, and Claire, penniless and hoping for better for the baby, agreed.