ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812 and ran off with him to France in July 1814. The couple were married in 1816 after his first wife committed suicide.

Detailed explanation-2: -When she was four, her father married a neighbour, Mary Jane Clairmont, with whom Mary came to have a troubled relationship. In 1814, Mary began a romance with one of her father’s political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was fifteen years old when she met Percy Bysshe Shelley, in 1812. He was twenty, and married, with a pregnant wife.

Detailed explanation-4: -At the age of 16, Mary eloped to Italy with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who praised ‘the irresistible wildness & sublimity of her feelings’. Each encouraged the other’s writing, and they married in 1816 after the suicide of Shelley’s wife.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.