Born: 30 August 1797, London, England
Died: 1 February 1851, London, England
Nationality: English
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, essayist, and biographer, best known as the author of Frankenstein.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Journals of Mary Shelley
Ed. Paul R. Feldman and Diana Scott-Kilvert. Clarendon Press, 2 vols., 1987.
Sunday 2nd October [1814]. Peacock comes after breakfast - walk over primrose hill - sail little boats return a little before four...
Monday 3rd. Read Political Justice. Hookham calls - walk with Peacock to the lake of Nangis and set off little fire boats. After dinner talk and let off fireworks...
Wednesday 5th. Peacock at Breakfast. Walk to the lake of Nangis and sail fire boats...
'The lake of Nangis' was one of the Primrose Hill ponds; Nangis was a small French town the boating party had visited a few weeks earlier. The future author of Frankenstein was seventeen, and not yet married. For information on Peacock and the other boaters see the Clairmont entry.