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Her parents
She was the daughter of philosopher and political writer William Godwin and famed feminist Mary Wollstonecraf. Sadly for Shelley, she never really knew her mother who died shortly after her birth. Her father William Godwin was left to care for Shelley and her older half-sister Fanny Imlay. -
Birthday
She was born on August 30, 1797 in London, England. -
Her early life
She was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, bioghrapher and travel writer.
She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. -
Sociocultural contextualization
She was born on the XIX century.
In that century people paid atention to people about their conditions of people and not for the legal privileges.
In that time the poblation was separated in two groups:
The owners (nobility and high bourgeoisie)
The poor classes (field daugman and industrial workers) -
sociocultural contextualization
The main characteristics of that time were...
- First Londonist revolts in the United Kingdom
- Emergence of the first unions
- It becomes legal the unionism in Great Britain
- The first letter from the town
