https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx Catherine Reef en-us 2018-12-03 19:44:38 UTC 2019-01-23 16:53:29 UTC hello@padlet.com flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/311997727 Reef, Catherine. Mary Shelley: the Strange, True Tale of Frankenstein's Creator. Clarion Books, 2018.]]> 2018-12-06 19:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/311997727 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323264052 After the death of Mary Shelley, her son discovered a piece of Percy Shelley's heart inside Mary's desk.

"It had rested in the desk for thirty years, unseen and untouched, since the day in 1822 when Mary Shelley tenderly wrapped it in pages of poetry and put it away." pg. 1

Site: http://mentalfloss.com/article/65624/mary-shelleys-favorite-keepsake-her-dead-husbands-heart]]> 2019-01-22 23:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323264052 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323264597 Mary Shelley was incredibly inspired by her deceased mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and often played beside her grave in the cemetery.]]> 2019-01-22 23:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323264597 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323265161 In December 1801, William Godwin, Mary Shelley's father, married Mary Jane Clairmont, though no one liked her as much as they liked Mary's birthmother.]]> 2019-01-22 23:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323265161 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323265415 In 1803, Mary Shelley received her third sibling, a half-brother named William, from her step-mother, Mary Jane Godwin.]]> 2019-01-22 23:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323265415 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323266739 William Godwin was a stickler for knowledge and didn't like the the childrens' books that "drilled dry facts and proverbs into young heads." and he wanted his children to learn good things and read many books.

"Godwin believed that children should read -- as long as they had books that made them think and imagine." Page 12]]> 2019-01-22 23:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323266739 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323269725 In 1807, William Godwin took out a loan so he could buy a house on 41 Skinner Street. The first floor would become a bookstore, and the next two floors would be a schoolroom and the family rooms. This was horrible to Mary and she hated the house.

" Ten-year-old Mary was sure her parents had made a huge mistake." Page 13]]> 2019-01-23 00:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323269725 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323270507 At thirteen, Mary developed horrible eczema along one of her arms and the itchy rash refused to leave. In May 1811, she was sent away to a girls' boarding school in Ramsgate, hoping that the sea air would help her skin heal. The education was boring to her and wasn't challenging. After six months, she returned to Skinner Street in much the same condition as when she left.

"School offered no nourishment for her hungry mind. In the first half of the nineteenth century, girls' schools instructed pupils in ladylike skills meant to help them fill idle hours." Page 15

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/04/in-search-mary-shelley-fiona-sampson-review]]> 2019-01-23 00:22:34 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323270507 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323271446 When her eczema was still no better, her parents arranged for her to stay with the family of William Baxter in Scotland, in hopes that the bracing climate would heal her, and on July 7, 1812, she was guided to the dock and shipped there. She loved it there, and her imagination was constantly fed new material.

"'It was beneath the trees of the grounds belonging to our house, or on the bleak sides of the woodless mountains near, that my true compositions, the airy flights of my imagination, were born and fostered.'" Page 17]]> 2019-01-23 00:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323271446 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323272045 Mary returned to England and spent seven months there, where her friend, Christy Baxter, met Mary's future spouse. She then left for Scotland and stayed there until 1814, when she left for England once more.

"...cried when she left again, never to return." Page 20]]> 2019-01-23 00:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323272045 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323281221 Mary and Percy had started seeing each other in secret, even though he was married to Harriet Shelley, though her parents thought everything was innocent. When William Godwin found out, he demanded that Percy never come to their home again. So the pair entrusted Mary's sister, Jane, to deliver notes and messages between the two. With their time apart, Percy was inconsoleable and became slightly obsessed with Mary.

"'Nothing that I ever read in tale or history could present a more striking image of a sudden, violent, irresistible, uncontrollable passion, than that under which I found him laboring.'"]]> 2019-01-23 01:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323281221 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323282192 To escape their parents and love freely, Percy convinced Mary, and also Jane, to run away to Switzerland. This caused a chain of events that led to them going to France and Germany, and suffering many plights of hunger, bad lodgings, and exhaustion from long walking.When all three were far too cross and depressed for their own good, they sailed back to England. Though her parents still heavily disapproved of the relationship and therefore ignored her, and practically disowned her.]]> 2019-01-23 01:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323282192 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323283929 On February 22, 1815, Mary prematurely gave birth to a little girl who lived for only twelve days before dying in the middle of the night. This was, of course, a traumatizing experience for Mary. The little girl was never named.

"'I think of my little dead baby'...'I was a mother, and am so no longer.'"]]> 2019-01-23 01:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323283929 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323284862 Mary became pregnant once more, and did everything she could to take care of both herself and the child. On January 24, 1816, Mary gave birth to a healthy baby boy. She named the child after her father, William, in hopes that he would come to accept them, but he still disapproved, and then asked Percy for money.]]> 2019-01-23 02:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323284862 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323285546 The first idea of Frankenstein came to Mary in a dream, where she pictured a man standing over a table, creating a monster out of spare human parts. When she told the dream to her friends, they all were incredibly enthusiastic.

"By the summer's end, she had completed a rough draft of her book about the student, whom she named Victor Frankenstein, and the being he endows with life."]]> 2019-01-23 02:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323285546 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323286135 On December 15, 1816, Percy Shelley received word that Harriet, his wife, was deceased, and had committed suicide. Though he was saddened, Percy took this as his chance to wed Mary, which he did on December 30th, fifteen days after he was informed. Due to their marriage, Mary Jane Godwin and William Godwin were more accepting of their relationship, now that they were "proper".]]> 2019-01-23 02:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323286135 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323289911 On September 2, 1817, Mary gave birth to Clara Shelley. Two months later, she received word that Frankenstein had finally gotten publisher. Lackington, Allen, and Company was known for printing books that were dark and gothic.]]> 2019-01-23 02:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323289911 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323290589 While in Italy, Percy got word from one of his friends that everyone was talking about Frakenstein and its illustrious author. Many editors and newspapers reviewed the item with amazement and love. yet some hated the book with a burning passion. It is near impossible to see a general consensus on how people feel about the book.]]> 2019-01-23 02:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323290589 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323291678 While in Italy, Clara grew incredibly sick, and when taken to the doctor, they found that there was no hope, as there was no real treatment to dysentery at that time period. Clara died in Mary's arms, and was buried on a deserted beach as an unmarked grave.]]> 2019-01-23 02:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323291678 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323292214 On February 27, 1819, Percy registered the birth, two months earlier, of Elena Adelaide Shelley and put his and Mary's names as the parents, though there is no evidence to say that she was pregnant at the time.The only other evidence of Elena was that she was placed with foster parents and died in 1820.]]> 2019-01-23 02:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323292214 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323292802 William Shelley was a fragile child, and he grew sick. No medical treatment could cure malaria at that time period, and William passed away on June 7, 1819, and buried in Rome's Protestant cemetery.]]> 2019-01-23 02:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323292802 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323293334 Percy Shelley was born on November 12, 1819, and was their first and only child who survived past infancy.]]> 2019-01-23 02:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323293334 flemimor000 https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323294829 After going on a boat trip to Livorno, Percy Shelley's body was found. He was cremated on August 16, 1822, and had died at the age of twenty nine. A year later, Mary returned to England with young Percy and stayed with the Godwins.]]> 2019-01-23 03:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/flemimor000/c6ll33spyjhx/wish/323294829