Why on earth would a delicate woman of your stature write about such awful, disturbing, and blasphemous things? As the daughter of the brilliant feminist Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin as the reformist writer and philosopher William Godwin, Shelley is famously noted for her 1831 introduction to a reprint of Frankenstein. Her explanation that, “it is not singular that, as the … [Read more...] about The Morbid Feminist Voice Behind the First Sci-Fi and Dystopian Apocalyptic Horror Novels
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Beyond Frankenstein—Mary Shelley’s Literary Successes
The tragedy of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is that, despite having one of the most famous horror stories of all time, her other work is virtually unknown. Her other two novels, aside from Frankenstein, were actually strange and unique in their own way—keep reading to learn more about the roads Mary Shelley paved for the literary community. Frankenstein, or The Modern … [Read more...] about Beyond Frankenstein—Mary Shelley’s Literary Successes
Mary Shelley: How a Teenager Changed the Literary World
Growing Up in a Literary Household Born in London, England on August 30, 1797, as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin--Mary was the daughter of famed feminist Wollstonecraft as well as the philosopher and political writer William Godwin. Her mother Mary Wollstonecraft authored The Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, but she died shortly after Shelley was born, and … [Read more...] about Mary Shelley: How a Teenager Changed the Literary World