He, in turn, had become dissatisfied with his wife and was affected by Mary's beauty, her intellectual interests, and, above all, by her identity as the 'daughter of William and Mary”. When Mary next met the tall, frail-looking, elegant Percy, on, she viewed him as a generous young idealist and as a budding genius. Therefore it was not long before Shelley was supporting Godwin financially. Percy Shelley shared Godwin's belief that the greatest justice is done when he who possesses money gives it to whomever has greatest need of it. In November 1812 at the age of 15, Mary met for the first time Godwin's new, young, and wealthy disciple, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his wife, Harriet Westbrook Shelley. This version became so popular that it was republished in 1830 in an edition illustrated by Robert Cruikshank. Mary's favourite pastime as a child was to 'write stories,' and in 1808 her thirty-nine-quatrain reworking of Charles Dibdin's five-stanza song Mounseer Nongtongpaw was published by the Godwin Juvenile Library. Mary Shelley's attachment to her father was to become intense and long lasting. Without a mother, Godwin immediately became the chief object of Mary’s affections. Eleven days after Mary’s birth, her mother died of puerperal fever. Mary’s maternal grandmother Elizabeth Dixon was born in Main Street Ballyshannon, Co. She was the second child of the feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft, and the first child of the philosopher, novelist, and journalist William Godwin. Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, London, in 1797.

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