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Carl Maria von Weber: "Einst traumte meiner sel'gen Base"

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"Enquiry concerning Political Justice articulated a vision of man's nature and his relation to society that animates Frankenstein."

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"Like Victor Frankenstein, Reginald, the hero of St. Leon, turns his back on domestic felicity to pursue forbidden knowledge... only to discover that, once achieved, the forbidden goal brings only disaster."

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"Although there is no supernaturalism in Caleb Williams, the novel gave Mary her structural model... Once his motives are discovered, Caleb must flee... Like Caleb, Victor, the hunted, must then become the hunter."

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Rain, Steam, and Speed—the Great Western Railway, oil on canvas by J.M.W. Turner, 1844; in the National Gallery, London.

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Pity, colour print finished in pen and watercolour by William Blake, 1795; in the Tate Collection, London.

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Born August 30, 1797

Educated herself by writing and reading books such as Paradise Lost & Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Lived with friends in Scotland for two years at 14

Met Percy Shelley in 1812

Visited Lord Byron in 1816, began to write Frankenstein

Published the book on March 11, 1818

Percy died in 1822, and Mary was forced to write to support her family

Produced multiple novels, poems, articles, and biographical works

Died February 1, 1851

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"The Godwins were at the very center of radical social, political, moral, and literary thought in the last decade of the eighteenth century."

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"Musical Romanticism was marked by emphasis on originality and individuality, personal emotional expression, and freedom and experimentation of form,"(Britannica, Romanticism).

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"These artists emphasized transient and dramatic effects of light, atmosphere, and colour to portray a dynamic natural world capable of evoking awe and grandeur. ...These artists favoured themes that were bizarre, pathetic, or extravagantly heroic, and they defined their images with tensely linear drawing and bold contrasts of light and shade. William Blake, the other principal early Romantic painter in England, evolved his own powerful and unique visionary images,"(Britannica, Romanticism).

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"Among such trends was a new appreciation of the medieval romance, from which the Romantic movement derives its name. The romance was a tale or ballad of chivalric adventure whose emphasis on individual heroism and on the exotic and the mysterious was in clear contrast to the elegant formality and artificiality of prevailing Classical forms of literature, such as the French Neoclassical tragedy or the English heroic couplet in poetry. This new interest in relatively unsophisticated but overtly emotional literary expressions of the past was to be a dominant note in Romanticism,"(Britannica, Romanticism).

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Father-in-law  (Shelley's father)

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Child

Was Mary's fourth child born in 1819, and the only one that would end up living past her death

Raised solely by Mary

Inherited the Shelley estates and title

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Husband

Poet

Met Shelley in 1812, seperated from a previous wife in 1814 and ran away with Mary on July 28th

Got married on December 30th, 1816

Both went with Claire in the summer to Lake Geneva, to visit Lord Byron at Villa Diodati

Died on July 8th, drowned while sailing

This devastated Mary, who was forced to write just so she could support her family

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Stepsister

Mary Jane Clairmont's daughter

Friends with Mary

Went with Shelley and Mary to visit Lord Byron

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Biological father

Writer

Wrote Enquiry concerning Political Justice and the novels Caleb Williams (1793-94) & St. Leon (1799)

Mary took a lot of inspiration from these works as part of the structure of Frankenstein

Was distant and blamed Mary for her mother's death

Remarried in 1801 to Mary Jane Clairmont Godwin

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Stepmother

Married Mary's father in 1801

Had a hostile relationship with Mary

Preferred her own children, especially Jane/Claire, Mary's stepsister (who she had a better relationship with)

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Definition: a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual

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Biological mother

Writer and women's rights activist

Wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)

Died two weeks after giving birth to Mary

Her reputation played a big role in Mary's life