FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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In June 1812
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In March 1810
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In February 1805
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In September 1812
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Detailed explanation-1: -Between 1812 and 1814, Shelley (then known as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) spent many months in the home of the Baxter family near the banks of the River Tay in Scotland.
Detailed explanation-2: -Because of tensions with her stepmother and illness, in 1812 Mary was sent to live in Scotland with William Baxter, an acquaintance of her father. There she became friends with his daughter Isabell, and later wrote that in Scotland she made up fantasy tales.
Detailed explanation-3: -As a teenager Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Shelley) lived with the Baxter family on South Baffin Street on the outskirts of industrial Dundee, a little while before penning one of the world’s most enduring works of Gothic fiction, Frankenstein (1818).
Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Shelley created the story on a rainy afternoon in 1816 in Geneva, where she was staying with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, their friend Lord Byron and Lord Byron’s physician, John Polidori.