Born to two radical novelists in 1797, Mary Shelley had the gift and passion of writing in her blood. Going through many hardships in her life such as the death of her mother and two children, Shelley used her writing as a relief (Holiday12). It is apparent in her work that her childhood and life as a young adult greatly affected her novels as well as the characters she wrote about.
Through out Mary Shelley's books, she seems to be drawn to the concept of a child-parent bond. She first displays this in Matidia, the story of a father's incestuous love for his daughter brought on by her resemblance of her dead mother. In her novella, The Mourner, she explores the motif of a daughter's abandonment of her mother at an early age. The Mourner is commonly compared to Matidia and often criticied for not living up to the originonal (McKeeverr1). …
