Topic > r, Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin and Shelley became good friends and this friendship became the influence for his first major works, Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem. Shelley fell in love with Godwin's daughter, Mary Godwin, and the two eloped to Switzerland in 1814. One day, the couple took a trip to Lake Geneva, where they met George Gordon Byron, better known as Lord Byron. They became friends and discussed poetry and even the supernatural, especially ghosts and spirits. This peculiar topic became of great interest and the three had a competition to see who could write the best ghost story. It was during...... middle of paper......."Frankenstein; or, the modern Prometheus. Np,nd Web. February 26, 2012..Everett, Glenn, "Shelley Biography." The Victorian Web . Np, July 2000. Web. 26 February 2012. Ferrara, Davon. "Time: The King of Kings." Np, January 10, 2012. Web. February 27, 2012. .Miller, Nelson. "Basic Sonnet Forms". . Np, nd Web.26 February 2012. ."Percy Bysshe Shelley." Poets.org.Np, nd Web. 26 February 2012. .