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2 days ago · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: / ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r ɑː f t /; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (/ ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r æ f t /, also UK:...
- Postpartum Infections
Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and...
- Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel...
- Matilda
Mathilda, or Matilda, is the second long work of fiction of...
- The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Title page from an 1857 edition of Perkin Warbeck. The...
- Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 –...
- John William Polidori
John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821)...
- Mary Wollstonecraft
2 days ago · The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
Mar 14, 2024 · The Tariff of 1816: Protectionism in the Early National Period - The Economic Historian. By Heather Michon May 23, 2024. Along with the debt, there was also a concern that the British might use the end of the war as an excuse to flood the market with cheap goods at a loss to snuff out nascent US manufacturing sectors as a form of retaliation.
16 hours ago · George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet and peer. [1] [2] He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, [3] [4] [5] and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets. [6]
May 15, 2024 · Kubla Khan, poetic fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1816. According to Coleridge, he composed the 54-line work while under the influence of laudanum, a form of opium. Coleridge believed that several hundred lines of the poem had come to him in a dream, but he was able to remember only this fragment after waking.
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May 18, 2024 · Updated May 20, 2024. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photo ever, "View from the Window at Le Gras," from his estate in France in 1826 or 1827 using a technique he'd invented called heliography and a camera obscura. Today, most of us walk around with an incredibly powerful camera in our pockets.
Apr 30, 2024 · Role In: American Civil War. Montgomery C. Meigs (born May 3, 1816, Augusta, Ga., U.S.—died Jan. 2, 1892, Washington, D.C.) was a U.S. engineer and architect, who, as quartermaster general of the Union Army during the American Civil War, was responsible for the purchase and distribution of vital supplies to Union troops.
