ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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. They had several children, of whom only one survived.

Detailed explanation-2: -One of Byron’s earlier flings, Claire Clairmont, introduced him to her stepsister and her husband: Mary and Percy Shelley. Their resultant polyamorous love affair was most likely a triad and perhaps included Claire as well. Mary Shelley, daughter of Mary Wollenstonecraft, was a believer in free love like her husband.

Detailed explanation-3: -Inside, they found one of Shelley’s last poems, Adonais, An Elegy on the Death of John Keats. When they unwrapped the paper, they found that it contained the remains of Percy’s heart. Or rather, what Mary thought was the remains of his heart. In 1889, Percy Florence himself died.

Detailed explanation-4: -She worked as both a writer and editor. She published several original works in those years, and edited the writings of Percy Shelley and her father. In the 1840s, Percy Florence married a woman who Mary adored, so she was surrounded by loved ones as she aged. In 1851, Mary died of a brain tumor.