At age 15 as an almost grownup teenager, Mary’s father described her as “ singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. While William Godwin was very fond of his second wife until the end of his life, Mary Godwin rejected her stepmother in the following years with increasing intensity.
On December 21, 1801, William Godwin married Mary Jane Clairmont, who lived in the neighborhood and was pregnant by him. Godwin was left alone to bring up Mary along with her older half-sister. Unfortunately, her mother died of puerperal fever soon after Mary was born. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) Mary Shelley’s Youthīorn as Mary Godwin on August 30, 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 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. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame my stature far exceeded theirs. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome I was not even of the same nature as man. “What was I? Of my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property.
Among them are the detective story and its most prominent protagonist Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Sherlock Holmes as well as some of the gothic horror novels, primarily Bram Stoker‘s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Only a few 19th century literary works have become an icon in today’s popular culture.
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