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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797) In 1816, 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her soon-to-be husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, traveled to Geneva to spend the summer with poet Lord Byron. Forced indoors by unpleasant weather, the friends amused themselves by sitting around a fire and reading ghost stories. Byron suggested they each write their own supernatural tale, and the story that Mary wrote became the ...
November 21: Mary: A Fiction Mary: A Fiction is the first and only complete novel written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. It tells the tragic story of a heroine's successive "romantic friendships" with a woman and a man. Composed while Wollstonecraft was a governess in Ireland, the novel was published in 1788 shortly after her summary dismissal. Helping to redefine genius, Wollstonecraft describes ...
"We are tomorrow’s past." – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley "We are tomorrow's past." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley "It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos" – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos" - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley