 The situation awaiting Mary Godwin in England was fraught with complications , some of which she had not foreseen . Either before or during the journey , she had become pregnant . She and Percy now found themselves penniless , and , to Mary 's genuine surprise , her father refused to have anything to do with her . The couple moved with Claire into lodgings at Somers Town , and later , Nelson Square . They maintained their intense programme of reading and writing , and entertained Percy Shelley 's friends , such as Thomas Jefferson Hogg and the writer Thomas Love Peacock . Percy Shelley sometimes left home for short periods to dodge creditors . The couple 's distraught letters reveal their pain at these separations . 
