Mary Wollstonecraft died of an infection, Imlay, whom she had met in Paris, where she had gone to observe, firsthand, theĪftermath of the French Revolution. Illegitimate daughter, Fanny, to an American entrepreneur and cad named Gilbert Her opinion of state-sanctioned wedlock, Mary Wollstonecraft borne an Before conquering herĭisapproval of the institution of marriage in order to marry Godwin, who shared Work that emphasized the importance of educating females. Perhaps even more unconventional Mary Wollstonecraft, had written A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a protofeminist Novelist, and, most famously, the author of An EnquiryĬoncerning Political Justice. The home of her father, William Godwin, the political radical, freethinker, Had fallen in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a frequent visitor to Young woman turned a sort of parlor game into a book that would long outlive Know, or think we know, the circumstances and the pressures under which a very Originated may be among the most famous creation stories in literature we The account of where and how Mary Shelley’s novel (thanks partly to a series of low-comedy theatrical adaptations) had become aīestseller, Mary Shelley offered a persuasive and romantic explanation of how Originally published anonymously in 1818 and which over the intervening years The 1831 edition of Frankenstein, which was
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