Mary Shelley
1797 to 1851
7 documented presences
7 places
Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Mary Shelley across 7 places, from 1797 to 1824. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Mary Shelley was documented, and when
1797year
Somers Town, Londonattested
“Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, London, in 1797.”
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1814 to 1817period
Genevaattested
“She wrote to Leigh Hunt, "I write bad articles which help to make me miserable—but I am going to plunge into a novel and hope that its clear water will wash off the mud of the magazines." When they ran off to France in the summer of 1814…”
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1814 to 1817period
Franceattested
“She wrote to Leigh Hunt, "I write bad articles which help to make me miserable—but I am going to plunge into a novel and hope that its clear water will wash off the mud of the magazines." When they ran off to France in the summer of 1814…”
source: Wikipedia: Mary Shelley
September 1816month
Bath, Somersetattested
“On their return to England in September 1816, Mary and Percy moved—with Claire Clairmont, who took lodgings nearby—to Bath, where they hoped to keep Claire's pregnancy secret.”
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September 1816month
Englandattested
“On their return to England in September 1816, Mary and Percy moved—with Claire Clairmont, who took lodgings nearby—to Bath, where they hoped to keep Claire's pregnancy secret.”
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1820year
Naplesattested
“In 1820, they found themselves plagued by accusations and threats from Paolo and Elise Foggi, former servants whom Percy Shelley had dismissed in Naples shortly after the Foggis had married.”
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1824year
Kentish Townattested
“In the summer of 1824, Mary Shelley moved to Kentish Town in north London to be near Jane Williams.”
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Places Mary Shelley is documented in
Bath, Somerset1 presence · 1816England1 presence · 1816France1 presence · 1814Geneva1 presence · 1814Naples1 presence · 1820
Kentish Town1 presence · 1824
Somers Town, London1 presence · 1797
Other places tied to Mary Shelley in the record
In each of these, a source puts Mary Shelley and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Mary Shelley was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1811year
Ramsgatementioned
“For six months in 1811, she also attended a boarding school in Ramsgate.”
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June 1812month
Dundeementioned
“Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything she undertakes almost invincible." In June 1812, Mary's father sent her to stay with the dissenting family of the radical William Baxter, near Dundee, Scotland.”
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1814year
Switzerlandmentioned
“At Marlow, Mary edited the joint journal of the group's 1814 Continental journey, adding material written in Switzerland in 1816, along with Percy's poem "Mont Blanc".”
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13 September 1814exact date
Gravesend, Kentmentioned
“They travelled down the Rhine and by land to the Dutch port of Maassluis, arriving at Gravesend, Kent, on 13 September 1814.”
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May 1816month
Genevamentioned
“In May 1816, Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, and their son travelled to Geneva with Claire Clairmont.”
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16 June 1816exact date
Lake Genevamentioned
“In September 2011, the astronomer Donald Olson, after a visit to the Lake Geneva villa the previous year, and inspecting data about the motion of the moon and stars, concluded that her waking dream took place "between 2am and 3am" on 16…”
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1817year
Francementioned
“In History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland (1817), she describes the particularly desolate landscape in crossing from France into Switzerland.”
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1817year
Switzerlandmentioned
“In History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland (1817), she describes the particularly desolate landscape in crossing from France into Switzerland.”
source: Wikipedia: Mary Shelley
September 1818month
Venicementioned
“The Italian adventure was, however, blighted for Mary Shelley by the deaths of both her children—Clara, in September 1818 in Venice, and William, in June 1819 in Rome.”
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September 1818month
Romementioned
“The Italian adventure was, however, blighted for Mary Shelley by the deaths of both her children—Clara, in September 1818 in Venice, and William, in June 1819 in Rome.”
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December 1818month
Naplesmentioned
“In December 1818, the Shelleys travelled south with Claire Clairmont and their servants to Naples, where they stayed for three months, receiving only one visitor, a physician.”
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27 February 1819exact date
Naplesmentioned
“The pair revealed that on 27 February 1819 in Naples, Percy Shelley had registered as his child by Mary Shelley a two-month-old baby girl named Elena Adelaide Shelley.”
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1820year
Spainmentioned
“In 1820, she was thrilled by the Liberal uprising in Spain which forced the king to grant a constitution.”
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1 July 1822exact date
Livornomentioned
“On 1 July 1822, Percy Shelley, Edward Ellerker Williams, and Captain Daniel Roberts sailed south down the coast to Livorno.”
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23 July 1823exact date
23 July 1823exact date
1827year
1828year
1840year
1844year
1845year
1 February 1851exact date
Documented at the same place, the same year
Edgar Allan PoeLondon · 1816John ConstableLondon · 1816Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount NelsonSomers Town, London · 1797Richard TrevithickSomers Town, London · 1797Charles DickensMarshalsea · 1824Johann Franz EnckeMarshalsea · 1824Charles BellMarshalsea · 1824Charles Auguste de BériotMarshalsea · 1824Honoré de BalzacParis · 1814Louis Philippe IParis · 1814Honoré DaumierParis · 1814Joseph-Ignace GuillotinParis · 1814
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