https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu en-us 2019-04-29 15:17:13 UTC 2024-06-28 09:45:36 UTC hello@padlet.com cmnguyen1201_2 https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355064971 Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, London, in 1797. She was the second child of the feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft, and the first child of the philosopher, novelist, and journalist William Godwin. Wollstonecraft died of puerperal fever shortly after Mary was born. Godwin was left to bring up Mary, along with her older half-sister, Fanny Imlay, Wollstonecraft's child by the American speculator Gilbert Imlay.
source]]> 2019-04-29 15:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355064971 cmnguyen1201_2 https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355065485 Mary W. Shelley began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into her first novel, 
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, published in 1818. The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumour which killed her at age 53.
source]]> 2019-04-29 15:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355065485 cmnguyen1201_2 https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355071224 She wrote Frankenstein in 1818, which became her most famous work that embodied Romanticism.
source]]> 2019-04-29 15:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355071224 cmnguyen1201_2 https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355080260 Characteristics of the Gothic include: death and decay, haunted homes/castles, family curses, madness, powerful love/romance, ghosts, and vampires.
source]]> 2019-04-29 15:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355080260 cmnguyen1201_2 https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355082776 Or Dark romanticism, a literary subgenre of Romanticism, reflecting popular fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. Often conflated with Gothicism, it has shadowed the euphoric Romantic movement ever since its 18th-century beginnings. Mary W. Shelley also a famous author who wrote about this genre.
source]]> 2019-04-29 16:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355082776 cmnguyen1201_2 https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355085733 In the spring of 1816, in what would come to be known as the year without a summer, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was vacationing with her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley in Switzerland, with their friend George Gordon Byron (aka Lord Byron). Trapped inside by the unseasonably cold weather, the party entertained themselves by reading German ghost stories. Inspired by their discussions, Lord Byron challenged his guests to write a gothic ghost tale of their own.
source]]> 2019-04-29 16:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355085733 cmnguyen1201_2 https://padlet.com/cmnguyen1201_2/flcpkr9lajlu/wish/355086667 She left Britain in 1818 for Italy, where their second and third children died before Mary Shelley gave birth to her last and only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley. In 1822, her husband drowned when his sailing boat sank during a storm near Viareggio. A year later, Mary Shelley returned to England and from then on devoted herself to the upbringing of her son and a career as a professional author.
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