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Detailed explanation-1: -The Shelleys left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm near Viareggio.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Shelley, 24 January 1816-2 June 1819, elder son of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, born out of wedlock and named after William Godwin.

Detailed explanation-3: -Only one of her children, Percy Florence, survived to adulthood and outlived her. In June of 1816, when she had the waking nightmare which became the catalyst of the tale, she was only nineteen and had already had her first two children.

Detailed explanation-4: -During this time, Mary was almost always either pregnant or breastfeeding. Motherhood preoccupied her and her journals reveal both the overwhelming love she felt towards her children and the crushing despair she felt when they passed away. Her first child, Clara, was born prematurely and lived only a few days.

Detailed explanation-5: -Only one of the Shelleys’ four children survived. The first, a girl whose name, if she had one, has been lost to the ages, lived only a few weeks. William and Clara died as toddlers, and the Shelleys were childless before the birth of their fourth and last child, Percy Florence.