Tag: Mary Shelley
Year of the Books Chat: December
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It’s the last month of the 2020 Year of the Books reading challenge. What have you read?
Mary Shelley: Her Life and Works
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Mary Shelley was born on August 30th, 1797, to Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her mother, a renowned philosopher and feminist, died only a month after her birth. Raised by her father and a stepmother that she was not fond of, Mary’s early years were dark and lonely ones. Despite…
Bringing Horror to Life: The Origin of Frankenstein
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The story of Frankenstein started during a rainy summer night in 1816. After a year marked by an extremely long and bitter winter, Mary Shelley and her lover, Percy Bryce Shelley, sought to escape the weather by visiting Lord Bryon’s villa in Switzerland. The three friends wandered around the vast…