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Mary Shelley mary-shelley-9481497-1-402 (Life (Childhood (She was born…

- - - - William Godwin
        
        Philosopher
        
        Political Writer
      - Mary Wollstonecraft
        
        Famed feminist
        
        Author of "The Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792)
  - - - They began a relationship in 1814.
      - He was still married to his first wife when he and Mary fled England together.
      - They lost their first child in 1815.
      - They finally were able to wed in December 1816.
      - He was a poet and a devoted student of her father.
      - Their son Percy Florence (born 1819) was their only child (of five) to survive to adulthood.
      - He drowned in 1822, out sailing with a friend in the Gulf of Spezia.
- - - - The Shelleys were in Switzerland in 1816 with Jane Clairmont, John Polidori and Lord Byron, who proposed that they each write a gothic ghost story. Mary was the only one who completed hers, writing what is now frequently credited as the world's first science fiction novel: Frankenstein.
- - - - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
        
        The first to develop a truly coherent evolutionary theory.
        
        Outlined his theories in his "Floreal" lecture of 1800, then later published three works concerning the subject.
        
        The modern era generally remembers him for a theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics.
    - - John Dalton