Complete the text about Mary Shelly with suitable information from the notes in the box. For
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Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851)
British writer
Place of birth: London
1814: met Percy Bysshe Shelley
June, 1814: moved to France with her husband
Famous for the novel Frankenstein

Mary Shelley is a great British (38) ______________. She was born on August 30 th , 1797 in
(39) ______________. Her mother died when she was a baby, so Mary grew up with her father. She
enjoyed writing at a young age. In 1814, she met the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She fell in love
with him and in June, 1814, Mary and Percy left England for (40) ______________ to begin a new
life together. In 1822, her husband Percy died in a sailing accident at the age of 29. After that, Mary
went back to England with her young son. She wrote many short stories and novels. She wrote her
most famous work, the (41) ______________, when she was only 20. It also became a successful
play and there are a lot of different films of the story. She died in London in (42) ______________.