daughter of the philosopher and forerunner of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft (to which I have dedicated this post ) and political philosopher William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin , already seemed destined by birth to become one of the most important British intellectuals. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
was born in Somers Town, London, in 1797, his mother died of puerperal fever ten days after it is brought into the world, Godwin was thus left alone with little Mary and Fanny Imlay, Wollstonecraft's eldest daughter, who decided to to give his last name was growing as his daughter. The early years of the life of Mary were happy, however, Godwin was often in debt and, convinced of not being able to look after only two girls, married his neighbor Mary Jane Clairmont, a homemaker with two illegitimate children by two different compagni.o probably had that had given fire to men. The group decided to pursue a literary competition to write a story about the supernatural. Another guest, Dr. John William Polidori, wrote on that occasion the vampire, who later had a strong Influe
Mary Godwin received advanced education and unusual for a girl of her time. He was in fact a housekeeper, guardian and had the opportunity to read the manuscripts of children's books written by her father on Greek history e romana. Nel giugno del 1812, Godwin mandò Mary a risiedere dalla famiglia radicale di William Baxter, amico del padre, in Scozia. A Baxter scrisse: "Voglio che lei cresca (...) come un filosofo, anzi come un cinico".Fu proprio in un intervallo tra due viaggi in Scozia che Mary conobbe Percy Bysshe Shelley, con il quale fuggì a Parigi all'età di 16 anni portando con sè la sorrellastra Claire Clairmont. Il viaggio in Francia e in Svizzera venne poi raccontato nel diario intitolato "Storia di un Viaggio di sei settimane". Dopo aver attraversato l'Europa, dovettero rientrare in Inghilterra per mancanza di soldi. Mary era incinta di Percy e la bambina morì pochi giorni dopo il parto prematuro. Mary e Percy si sposarono nel 1816, after the suicide of his wife. In 1817 the couple spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William Polidori and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary was the inspiration for the writing of her novel Frankenstein. In 1818 the Shelleys left England for Italy, where they died Everina Clara and William, respectively the second and the third son of Mary and Percy, Percy and Florence where he was born, the only surviving parents. In 1822 her husband was drowned while crossing the Bay of La Spezia. A year later, Mary returned to England where he devoted himself entirely to writing career, so you can keep the child. He spent the last decade of his life in the disease, probably a brain tumor that will kill at the age of 53 years, in 1851.
The best known is the work of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, written in 1818 and considered the first science fiction novel. The work was born under special circumstances, Mary Shelley was on vacation in Bellerive, near Geneva, in the company of her husband's half-sister Claire Clairmont and Lord Byron. The season was very rainy and friends, homebound, discussed on German literature, so it was that the writer had the idea of \u200b\u200ba Gothic novel that tells the creation of a man, without God, but by using an energy of essence God whose use was considered a sacrilege by Pliny the Elder from the terrible consequences. Hence the subtitle "Modern Prometheus" with a clear allusion to the myth, taken from Ovid, the Titannza on Bram Stoker's Dracula. I wonder how it was secretly peek through the window of the house, and listen to these writers talk.
was born in Somers Town, London, in 1797, his mother died of puerperal fever ten days after it is brought into the world, Godwin was thus left alone with little Mary and Fanny Imlay, Wollstonecraft's eldest daughter, who decided to to give his last name was growing as his daughter. The early years of the life of Mary were happy, however, Godwin was often in debt and, convinced of not being able to look after only two girls, married his neighbor Mary Jane Clairmont, a homemaker with two illegitimate children by two different compagni.o probably had that had given fire to men. The group decided to pursue a literary competition to write a story about the supernatural. Another guest, Dr. John William Polidori, wrote on that occasion the vampire, who later had a strong Influe
Mary Godwin received advanced education and unusual for a girl of her time. He was in fact a housekeeper, guardian and had the opportunity to read the manuscripts of children's books written by her father on Greek history e romana. Nel giugno del 1812, Godwin mandò Mary a risiedere dalla famiglia radicale di William Baxter, amico del padre, in Scozia. A Baxter scrisse: "Voglio che lei cresca (...) come un filosofo, anzi come un cinico".Fu proprio in un intervallo tra due viaggi in Scozia che Mary conobbe Percy Bysshe Shelley, con il quale fuggì a Parigi all'età di 16 anni portando con sè la sorrellastra Claire Clairmont. Il viaggio in Francia e in Svizzera venne poi raccontato nel diario intitolato "Storia di un Viaggio di sei settimane". Dopo aver attraversato l'Europa, dovettero rientrare in Inghilterra per mancanza di soldi. Mary era incinta di Percy e la bambina morì pochi giorni dopo il parto prematuro. Mary e Percy si sposarono nel 1816, after the suicide of his wife. In 1817 the couple spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William Polidori and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary was the inspiration for the writing of her novel Frankenstein. In 1818 the Shelleys left England for Italy, where they died Everina Clara and William, respectively the second and the third son of Mary and Percy, Percy and Florence where he was born, the only surviving parents. In 1822 her husband was drowned while crossing the Bay of La Spezia. A year later, Mary returned to England where he devoted himself entirely to writing career, so you can keep the child. He spent the last decade of his life in the disease, probably a brain tumor that will kill at the age of 53 years, in 1851.
The best known is the work of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, written in 1818 and considered the first science fiction novel. The work was born under special circumstances, Mary Shelley was on vacation in Bellerive, near Geneva, in the company of her husband's half-sister Claire Clairmont and Lord Byron. The season was very rainy and friends, homebound, discussed on German literature, so it was that the writer had the idea of \u200b\u200ba Gothic novel that tells the creation of a man, without God, but by using an energy of essence God whose use was considered a sacrilege by Pliny the Elder from the terrible consequences. Hence the subtitle "Modern Prometheus" with a clear allusion to the myth, taken from Ovid, the Titannza on Bram Stoker's Dracula. I wonder how it was secretly peek through the window of the house, and listen to these writers talk.
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