Personal Narrative: How Mary Shelley Changed My Life

"As a child, I scribbled; and my favorite pastime during the hours given me for recreation, was to ‘write stories’." I'm Mary Shelley, best known for writing the famous book, Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus. I was born with the name Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August 30th, 1797, in London, England. My parents were William Godwin, a Philosopher and Political writer, and Mary Wollstone, the author of The Vindication of The Rights of Women. Unfortunately, I never quite knew my mother because she died shortly after my birth, so my father had to care for me and my half sister, Fanny, whose parents were my mother and a soldier, which whom my mother had an affair with. I've done a lot with my life, and a lot of things have happened to me in my life, today, I'm going to talk
I would also daydream a lot, trying to escape my life from home. Because of my creativity, I published my first poem at the age of 10, named "Mounseer Nogtonpaw." I was able to my poem because of my father's publishing company. My stepmother never gave me the childhood I wanted, but my father helped me live my passion, writing. Since I started my writing career so young, I was a very important part of English Literature. Before my writing career really expanded, I didn't write that many books, I did however, write "History of a 6 Week Tour" at the age of 18. My biggest success was the book "Frankenstein." The reason I wrote this book is because while I was at a dinner party, the host, Lord Byron, challenged us to write a horror story. I remember that I was so scared, because everyone immediately came up with ideas, and I had nothing. I would think every single day, but it wasn't until I had something that I called a "waking dream." I had a vision of my novel, and then I started writing, until it became the famous novel it is today. I published Frankenstein at the age of 19. After my husbands death, I devoted most of my time to writing more books, because I needed a way to