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| | Mary Shelley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is perhaps equally famous as the wife of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. | | | Mary consoled herself with her studies and with Percy, who would always be, despite disillusionment and tragedy, the love of her life. | | | Mary was tireless in promoting her late husband's work, including editing and annotating unpublished material. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
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| | Mary Shelley Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com |
| | Mary Shelley was the daughter of William Godwin, the foremost English writer on the French Revolution and his wife Mary Wollstonecraft. | | | Mary's fascination with scientific radicalism in the book brought her criticism and she was forced to bowdlerise her own book for later editions. | | | Mary was educated at home by her father and, perhaps unsurprisingly, encouraged in literary pursuits and given considerable intellectual reading matter from Godwin's own library. |
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| | Frankenstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This edition was quite heavily revised by Mary Shelley, and included a new, longer preface by her, presenting a somewhat embellished version of the genesis of the story. | | | It was issued anonymously, with a preface written for Mary by Percy Bysshe Shelley and with a dedication to philosopher William Godwin, her father. | | | For Mary Shelley on a personal level, Prometheus was not a hero but a devil, who she blamed for bringing fire to man and thereby seducing the human race to the vice of eating meat (fire brought cooking which brought hunting and killing) (Wolf, p. |
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| | Meri-Jane Rochelson- Mary Shelley's Progeny |
| | One is asked to accept that Mary suspected her husband's actions and ideals of concealing "an emotional narcissism, an unwillingness to confront the origins of his own desires or the impact of his demands on those most dependent upon him," without Mary's statement of any such recognition. | | | Recognizing (and revealing) Mary Shelley's knowledge of the intellectual currents of her day, Mellor draws upon Kant and Edmund Burke in examining the unknowability of the creature and its relation to the Romantic enterprise. | | | Mellor's discussion is especially compelling in chapters 4 and 5, in which Mary Shelley is shown to reject both a (Percy) Shelleyan view of nature as the field for Promethean exploits and the traditional scientific imaging of nature as a passive female to be tamed and penetrated by the masculine mind. |
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Mary Shelley |
| | Mary finally gained Sir Timothy’s consent to publish Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1839, but his continued ban on a biography of his son meant that Mary had to resort to filling her introductions to Shelley’s major poems with snippets of biographical material. | | | Godwin married his second wife, Mary Jane Clairmont, in 1801, but relations between her and Mary were never happy, in part at least because Mary was deeply attached to her father and came more and more to idealise her mother, taking to sitting reading her works whilst sitting on her grave in St. Pancras Cemetry. | | | From Shelley’s point of view, the precocious and intellectual Mary must have seemed like a reincarnation of her radical mother at whose graveside they would meet. |
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http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5179
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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Mary Shelley |
| | Mary (who was so lively that her father had nicknamed her Mercury) was frequently whipped for impertinence; rebellion came naturally to the headstrong Mary, and she refused to be subdued. | | | Though Mary was desolate, she remained dedicated to her son, Percy Florence. | | | Although it was maliciously rumored that Percy Shelley was the book's true author, Mary was catapulted to the forefront of the struggle for recognition then being waged by woman writers. |
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http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_mary_shelley.html
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| | Mary was 18 when she wrote Frankenstein, Gothic progeny, so one story goes, of a particularly weird evening in which, after reading Coleridge's Christabel, Shelley became convinced that Mary's nipples were eyes and had to be visited by a doctor. | | | Their relationship foundered when Mary learned, first that without confiding in her at all, Jane had married Thomas Jefferson Hogg, by whom she was pregnant, and then that she had spread ugly tales about the unhappy marriage of Percy and Mary Shelley, and how greatly Mary's coldness had been to blame. | | | Coleridge, whom Mary sometimes met in later years, recited his ''Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' one evening, with Mary ''hiding behind a sofa when she should have been in bed.'' The poem's icebound sea, its hero stalked by ''a frightful fiend,'' were remembered in ''Frankenstein.'' In 1812, Percy Bysshe Shelley came into Godwin's circle. |
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| | Mary Shelley Biography |
| | Shelley began writing her next novel, Valperga, in April 1820 while in Florence and was still working on it in Pisa that fall. | | | Mary tried to obey her father's injunction, but Percy's attempted suicide soon convinced Mary of the strength of his love, and on 28 July 1814 she fled with him to France, accompanied by Jane Clairmont. | | | As Percy's poem "To Mary" suggests, Mary had become cold and withdrawn by late 1819, but she was not insensitive to the pain she was inflicting on him. |
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http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/shelleybio.html
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| | Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley |
| | Shelley was the daughter of the radicals William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, both of whom sought to reform European society by means of ideas generated by the French Revolution. | | | What Mary Shelley produced was not so much a ghost story as a meditation on the dangers of genius and creativity, and of man's responsibility to his own creations, and to the world into which he introduces them. | | | Wollstonecraft died shortly after giving birth to her daughter, but the young Mary read all of her mother's writings by the age of 10. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/wives/writers/shelley.html
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| | Mary Shelley and Frankenstein Essays |
| | Following, I also plan to highlight Mary Shelley's knowledge of literature with primary emphasis on the works studied by the monster in relation to his origins as well as Mary Shelley's. | | | The Life of Mary Shelley - a brief overview of the life of Mary Shelley. | | | The Author is Become a Creator God - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein can be read as an allegory for the creative act of authorship. |
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| | Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Science Fiction HOF -- Mary W. Shelley |
| | Mary Shelley’s gothic-horror masterpiece Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to be viewed as the first genuine science fiction novel. | | | Shelley wrote a further proto-science-fiction novel, The Last Man (1826), set at the end of the 21st century, in which a plague decimates humanity. | | | Alternatively, he can be thought of as an embodiment of the evil latent in mankind, in which case he need merely be given the opportunity to be a monster. |
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http://www.sfhomeworld.org/exhibits/homeworld/scifi_hof.asp?articleID=62
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| | Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley - Biography and Works |
| | Mary Shelley was 21 when the book was published. | | | In her childhood Mary Shelley was left to educate herself amongst her father's intellectual circle. | | | In 1819 Mary suffered a nervous breakdown after the death of William - she had also lost a daughter the previous year. |
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http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_mary
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| | Neurotic Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| | The bodies of Shelley, Williams and the boat's sailor washed up ten days later and were treated and cremated on the beach because of quarantine laws to protect against the plague. | | | But by 1814, Shelley had fallen in love with Mary Godwin, which upset both Harriet and Mary's father, William Godwin. | | | Baby Clara died in 1818 in Mary's arms while she waited in the hall of an inn for Shelley to find a doctor. |
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http://www.neuroticpoets.com/shelley
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| | A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia — www.greenwood.com |
| | [M]ary Shelley merits recent renewed attention exemplified by the publication of this first reference guide to her life and literary work....Thorough citations and annotations to references in Shelley's individual works recommend this handbook to literary scholars. | | | Description: Mary Shelley has only recently emerged from the shadows of her famous parents, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and that of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. | | | These texts illustrate the difficulties of a shifting literary marketplace, while her travel writings illuminate her rich personal experiences and keen intellect. |
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http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GR0159.aspx
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| | Mary Shelley By Nell Minow and Katha Pollitt |
| | Mary compared herself to Dr. Frankenstein in her preface to a revised edition of the book when she said, "And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper." She saw herself, like her flawed hero, creating “life” by assembling parts from different sources and then watching her creation leave her control. | | | Her mother, pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, had a child out of wedlock with American businessman Gilbert Imlay and later married Mary's father, free-thinking philosopher William Godwin, when she was pregnant with Mary. | | | Percy’s private life had, she acknowledged, contained events that were, in Mary’s words, “hardly for the rude cold world to handle.” But if she hoped to bask in his glory, she was wrong. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/2057848/entry/2057891
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| | The Literary Gothic Mary Shelley |
| | As if this weren't enough, Mary Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had a relationship (not quite a sexual affair, apparently, to Wollstonecraft's disappointment) with Henri Fuseli, a fact which Mary Shelley knew. | | | Relatively few people know that the Frankenstein they read is actually Mary Shelley's revised version of her novel, which provides the text used in most mass market editions. | | | The famous painting (or one version of it; Fuseli painted it twice) that inspired the description of Elizabeth's dead body flung across her bridal bed just after her murder by the creature (in Chapter 23 of Frankenstein). |
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http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/mshelley.html
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| | Shelley, Mary (1797-1851) |
| | Being the daughter of the radical and still famous Mary Wollstonecraft (who died soon after her birth) and the often-nearly-forgotten philosopher William Godwin (illustrious author of "Caleb Williams") she was always surrounded by people from literary circles and finally eloped with one of them, the strange but talented Percy Bysshe Shelley. | | | After Shelley's death in 1822 Mary stayed for a while in Italy in the neighbourhood of Lord Byron, before returning to England in 1823. | | | The Last Man (1826) is a frightening account of a new plague eating away mankind. |
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| | Mary Shelley |
| | It was later revised by Mary Shelley and published with a preface under her own name (1831). | | | Both Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein have led to a whole genre of horror movies, though none bear much resemblance either to the original characters or to the novels in which they first appear. | | | Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died giving birth to Mary. |
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| | Amazon.com: Mary Shelley : Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters: Books: Anne K. Mellor |
| | When Mary Wollstonecraft died of puerperal fever on September 10, 1797, she left her newborn daughter with a double burden: a powerful and ever-to-be-frustrated need to be mothered, together with a name, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, that proclaimed this small child as the fruit of the most famous radical literary marriage of eighteenth-century England. | | | This book is an excellent text for the study of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein. | | | It will fascinate those interested in the life of Mary Shelley, students studying Frankenstein, and those interested in learning about an 19th Century woman writer, who wrote a novel about a monster that has since become a universal archetype of isolation and societal rejection. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415901472?v=glance
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| | Amazon.com: Frankenstein: Books: Mary Shelley |
| | Shelley's early life, as described by Lesser, was so bizarre and socially irresponsible that it would make a good subject for a historical novel. | | | While Mary Shelly might have been stylistically weak, her story was not. | | | That aside, and unlike such contemporaries as Jane Austen, author Mary Shelly has never been greatly admired for her literary style, which is often awkward. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553212478?v=glance
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| | Godwin taught Mary to read and spell her name by having her trace her mother's inscription on the stone. | | | On the night of June 16th, Mary and Percy could not return to Chapuis, due to an incredible storm, and spent the night at the Villa Diodati with Byron and John Polidori. | | | This not a reflection of her courage and integrity but derived from socialization and the "punishments" placed on her by society. |
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| | Malaspina Great Books - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797) |
| | When she was in Switzerland with Shelley and Byron in 1816 staying at Lord Byron's villa on Lake Geneva, a proposal was made that various members of the party should write a romance or tale dealing with the supernatural. | | | Byron the beginning of a narrative about a vampyre, and Dr Polidori, Byron's physician, a tale named The Vampyre, the authorship of which used frequently in past years to be attributed to Byron himself. | | | The influence of John Milton's Paradise Lost can also be discerned within the novel. |
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| | Mary Shelley Life Stories, Books, & Links |
| | When Mary Shelley finally stepped forward to claim authorship of Frankenstein, many were so doubtful of such a wild tale springing as if fully-formed from a first-time, teenaged, female author that they attributed the book to her husband. | | | FIND BOOKS BY MARY SHELLEY AT Powell's Books | | | In fact, the story of her first twenty years contains such a trail of miscreation, abandonment, and ghostly pursuit that it might have been more surprising had she written a book on any other theme. |
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| | Mary Shelley and Her Circle |
| | Mary Shelley (1797-1851) Notes on her Life: - father: William Godwin, philosopher, atheist, anarchist; believed people were rational creatur. | | | Links for Mary Shelley and other related Subjects | | | Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley Table of Contents Letters Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III C. http://www.intergo.com/Library/lit/shelley/franken |
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| | Frankenstein Exhibit Introduction |
| | f you and a high school or college group are interested in meeting Mary Shelley and learning more about her life and the creation of her most famous story. | | | You'll find photos of museum artifacts that are part of the exhibit with links to all kinds of information about the science, literature, and life experiences that inspired Mary Shelley to write this timeless tale. | | | Find out more about the original story written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley when she was just 18 years old. |
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http://www.thebakken.org/Frankenstein/intro.htm
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| | Mary Shelley Biography |
| | Frankenstein can be viewed as a reflection of Mary's fears of having a deformed child or a child she could not love. | | | The tale Shelley tells is of a young Dr. Frankenstein who tries to create a living being but instead creates a monster. | | | Mary now had the basis of her story and went on to complete the novel in the spring of 1817 and have it published January 1, 1818. |
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| | My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein |
| | There are pages dealing with Mary's life, her family, her friends and her novels. | | | A web site devoted to Mary Shelley and her novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus | | | The text of Frankenstein is available in a fully annotated HTML format. |
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| | Shelley's Frankenstein |
| | Background on Percy Shelley's "Banned Books" ("The Necessity of Atheism" and "Alastor," from the AAUP database on censored and banned books) | | | Works by Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, Mary Shelley's Parents | | | Do these images correspond to anything in the novel? |
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| | Random House Authors Mary Shelley |
| | Godwin married Mary Jane Clairmont, their next-door neighbor, when Mary was four, and she was raised in an extended family that included a stepsister, Jane, and a half sister, Fanny Imlay. | | | Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, a renowned feminist and the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), died of sepsis ten days after giving birth to her. | | | Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August 30, 1797, in London. |
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| | Mary Wollstonecraft - Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759–97, English author and feminist, b. | | | Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797–1851, English author; daughter of William | | | After Shelley's death in 1822, she devoted herself to caring for her aged father and educating her only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. |
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| | mwshelley |
| | But when Victor considers the "race of demons" that might populate the world if he goes through with his plan to create a female companion for the "wretch," he clearly places monster reproductive biology at the center of his own anxieties. | | | When asked to explain why he has created a monstrous life form (one that would eventually destroy him), Mary's Victor Frankenstein offers an explanation based on the concept of "species." "A new species would bless me as its creator," he says to Captain Walton in the opening pages of the novel. | | | ary Wollstonecraft Shelley was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the author of one of the most widely read and often redacted novels of the past two centuries. |
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| | Mary Shelley at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources |
| | For the history of her girlhood and of her married life see GoDwIN, WILLIAM, and SHELLEY, P.B. When she was in Switzerland with Shelley and Byron in 1816 a proposal was made that various members of the party should write a romance or tale dealing with the supernatural. | | | For general discussions on literature, philosophy, politics and the humanities, visit the Classics Network Forums. | | | Shelley was 21 when the book was published; she started to write it when she was 18. |
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| | Mary Shelley (I) |
| | Son of Frankenstein (1939) (novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus) (as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) | | | Young Frankenstein (1974) (novel Frankenstein) (as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) | | | If you've read the book and seen the movies... |
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| | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein |
| | In this adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley tale, Kenneth Branagh stars as Victor Frankenstein, a man possessed by a mission to create life but painfully unaware of the consequences of his actions. | | | -- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND PRACTICE | | | If you like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the following films may interest you |
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mary_shelleys_frankenstein
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley |
| | Your own Mary who loves you so tenderly 5 | | | [after their July elopement, Mary's father refused to see her or Percy--though he continued to borrow money from him] | | | [note: Mary Godwin was born 30 August 1797] |
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| | Frankenstein (1994) |
| | Do not mistake stylization for poor film-making, because this is a wonderfully made and presented film, that if understood captivates you from the first spoken words(a quote from Mary Shelly, setting up the stylization) to the last frame. | | | The great close-ups define the characters, and through them you can understand them. | | | Know what you're getting into, a passionatly made film about what drives one to both excel and what drives one to madness, and the dangers of excess beyond reason. |
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| | Mary Michael Shelley carved, painted, wood, carving, carved, low relief woodcarving, low relief carving, low-relief, ... |
| | Click here for news and updates from Mary. | | | I like to produce images that please others, work that takes on a different meaning for others than it has for me. My pictures live on their own apart from me. | | | Mary Michael Shelley carved, painted, wood, carving, carved, low relief woodcarving, low relief carving, low-relief, painted low relief woodcarving, paintings, artwork, folk art, self-taught art, naive art |
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| | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in Art, Illustration, and Sculpture |
| | The images must be original and true to the novel, based on artist interpretation of Shelley's descriptions of the characters, mainly the nameless being created by Frankenstein. | | | I am not any of these artists and I don't have all of these books or merchandise items, though I do have some of the books. | | | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in Art, Illustration, and Sculpture |
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