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Hace 1 día · Life and career Early life Page from William Godwin's journal recording "Birth of Mary, 20 minutes after 11 at night" (left column, fourth row) Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, London, in 1797. She was the second child of the feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the first child of the philosopher, novelist, and journalist William ...
Hace 2 días · The fight that Mary Wollstonecraft began in the 18th century continues to this day. As she wrote in "A Vindication," "It is time to effect a revolution in female manners—time to restore to them their lost dignity—and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world."
Hace 2 días · Mary Shelley could likely have been example to Charlotte for the situation she, as a current writer, and for the legacy of her sisters, faced. Charlotte the editor to new editions of her sisters’ work, and knowing critics may be alert to textual parallels to their reading, being as this was an active practice known to contemporary writers, Charlotte was likely to seek to inhibit any negative ...
Hace 2 días · Dear readers, I have succumbed to some kind of late-Spring bug, and getting any new writing done this week has proved impossible. So instead, I thought I would re-share with you a book review from earlier this month which came out in Current, in case you missed it. In it, I discuss two recent books which both attempt to recover Mary Wollstonecraft as a thinker deeply interested in the life of ...
Hace 4 días · In May 1814, Shelley began visiting his mentor Godwin almost daily, and soon fell in love with Mary, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Godwin and the late feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft. Shelley and Mary declared their love for each other during a visit to her mother's grave in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church on 26 June.
Hace 2 días · Shelley wrote that his contact with Byron led to a drive in his own poetic output, and was inspired to write his Hymn to Intellectual Beauty following a boating tour that the two took together. The summer in Geneva also inspired Shelley’s lover, and later wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
Hace 2 días · Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / Introduction / Reading Session, #1
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