*Ø* Blogmanac August 30, 1797 | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein's creator
Mary Shelley, English author (Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus). Daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and prominent anarchistic atheist philosopher William Godwin, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 after the suicide of his first wife. During the summer of 1816, the Shelleys visited Lord Byron in Switzerland. The three, together with Byron's physician John William Polidori, agreed that they would each write a ghost story. Only Polidori and Mary Shelley finished their stories. He produced The Vampyre (1819) and she created Frankenstein.
His heart would not burn: The death of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mary Shelley, English author (Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus). Daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and prominent anarchistic atheist philosopher William Godwin, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 after the suicide of his first wife. During the summer of 1816, the Shelleys visited Lord Byron in Switzerland. The three, together with Byron's physician John William Polidori, agreed that they would each write a ghost story. Only Polidori and Mary Shelley finished their stories. He produced The Vampyre (1819) and she created Frankenstein.
His heart would not burn: The death of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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