Eleven days after the birth of Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft passed away due to complications of childbirth, during the birth of her second daughter Mary Shelly.  Specifically puerperal fever ,also known as childbed fever, which was a common and often fatal condition at the time.

 Wollstonecraft was buried at Old St Pancras Churchyard in London. Her remains were later moved to the Shelley tomb in Bournemouth. 

Wollstonecraft's passing was a significant loss to the literary and intellectual community.