How old was mary shelley when she wrote frankenstein
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Frankenstein
1818 novel by Mary Shelley
This article is about the novel by Mary Shelley. For the Monster, see Frankenstein's monster.
For other uses, see Frankenstein (disambiguation).
Volume I, first edition | |
| Author | Mary Shelley |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Gothic novel, horror fiction, science fiction[1] |
| Set in | England, Ireland, Italy, France, Scotland, Old Swiss Confederacy, Russian Empire, Holy Roman Empire; late 18th century |
| Published | 1 January 1818; 207 years ago (1818-01-01) |
| Publisher | Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones |
| Publication place | England |
| Pages | 280 |
Dewey Decimal | 823.7 |
| LC Class | PR5397 .F7 |
| Preceded by | History of a Six Weeks' Tour |
| Followed by | Valperga |
| Text | Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus at Wikisource |
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapientcreature in an unorthodox
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Over two hundred years ago Mary Shelley, at age nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature.
She was in a privileged position to craft this rich cultural-historical document because her father William Godwin was a leading enlightenment philosopher, her mother Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneer English feminist who defended the rights of women, and her husband Percy Shelley was a leading romantic poet. Thus was this precocious and gifted writer poised to dramatize the clash of two cultures—the Enlightenment that celebrated reason and science and the Romantic age that celebrated passion and art.
She was also energized by a series of personal traumas that fueled her feverish story: ten days after her birth her mother died from puerperal fever, at seventeen she eloped with Percy who abandoned his wife, the following year her premature illegitimate child died shortly after being born and her half-sister Fanny Godwin committed suicide, a couple of months later Percy’s wife committed suicide, and
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Mary Shelley's Monster Turns 200
June 2018
Like the New York State Library, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2018. Exploring literature from 1818 can give us a unique window into the world as it existed at the State Library's birth: Frankenstein can be read as evidence of scientific, political, social and artistic ideas of the time.
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was the daughter of eighteenth-century intellectuals: her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, writer and women's rights advocate, perhaps most famous for her 1792 Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and her father was the journalist and political philosopher William Godwin. In 1814, Mary and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley eloped to France. William Godwin had previously forbidden his daughter to see Percy Shelley, who was married with children. Even after Mary and Percy returned to England, Godwin did not speak to her for four years.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus was published in London in 1818. The novel reflects influences of the Gothic genre
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