When Mary was 15, the poet Percy Shelley (who was married and had children) started an affair with her. They ran away, taking Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont with them.

Family scandal, an illicit love affair, travel, repeated loss, ... In 1814, then-teenaged Mary began a romance the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married at the time.

It is 200 years since the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned at sea at the age of 29. At the time, his life and works were considered scandalous, due in part to his reputation as a sexually ...

Film; Films; True story behind Mary Shelley movie - scandalous and tragic real life of woman who created Frankenstein You may know her for her iconic novel but that's not all there is to her story ...

The Villa Diodati, where Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Lord Byron and John Polidori wrote ghost stories, eventually leading to the publishing of "Frankenstein" Around two hundred years ...

She had fallen in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley -- he was 21, already married, ... Their decision caused a scandal.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 in Field House, Wareham, West Sussex. His father Timothy was a well-to-do member of the gentry and aspiring liberal politician.

At 16, she became pregnant with the Romantic poet Percy Shelley; the two eloped to France in 1814. Her life was full of death. Her mother, the famed feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, ...