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Died: February 1, 1851. Bournemouth, England. English novelist. English novelist Mary Shelley is best known for writing Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) and for her marriage to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822).
Mar 9, 2018 · Thunder, lightning and flickering candles. It sounds like the stuff of a horror story—and for Mary Shelley, it was. She wrote her masterpiece Frankenstein when she was just 19 years old, and the ...
History and Science in Mary Shelley’s World. by Hilary Rappaport. Mary Shelley lived at a time of political, social, and scientific revolution and her creation of Frankenstein, published in 1818, was influenced by this upheaval. The 18th century is known as the “Age of Enlightenment,” a time when prominent thinkers questioned religious ...
Frankenstein is the title character in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, the prototypical ‘mad scientist’ who creates a monster by which he is eventually killed. The name Frankenstein has become attached to the creature itself, who has become one of the best-known monsters in the history of film.
Oct 14, 2020 · English: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Godwin (August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851) was an English writer who is, perhaps, equally-famously remembered as the wife of Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. See also Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826. The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century, ravaged by the rise of a bubonic plague pandemic that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity.
August 1797 in London, England; † 1. Februar 1851 ebenda), häufig auch als Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (bzw. Mary W. Shelley) bezeichnet, war eine englische Schriftstellerin des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts. Sie ist als Autorin von Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus (1818), einem bekannten Werk der romantischen und fantastischen Literatur ...
