Shelley could often be found reading, sometimes by her mother's grave. While she didn't have a formal education, she did make great use of her father's extensive library. The Godwin household had a number of distinguished guests during Shelley's childhood, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
Her stepmother decided that her stepsister Jane (later Claire) should be sent away to school, but she saw no need to educate Shelley. Shelley never got along with her stepmother. Clairmont brought her own two children into the union, and she and Godwin later had a son together. The family dynamics soon changed with Godwin's marriage to Mary Jane Clairmont in 1801. Imlay was Wollstonecraft's daughter from an affair she had with a soldier. Her father William Godwin was left to care for Shelley and her older half-sister Fanny Imlay. Sadly for Shelley, she never really knew her mother who died shortly after her birth. She was the daughter of philosopher and political writer William Godwin and famed feminist Mary Wollstonecraft - the author of The Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August 30, 1797, in London, England. She wrote several other books, including Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), the autobiographical Lodore (1835) and the posthumously published Mathilde. Writer Mary Shelley published her most famous novel, Frankenstein, in 1818.
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