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Who Were Mary's Parents And Who Was Her Husband?

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1. MARY SHELLEY: Who were Mary’s parents, and who was her husband? Name them and give a brief explanation of who they were, what they were known for, and what kind of writings they published.
- William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, gave birth to Mary Shelly. They significant amount of attention for their radical writing and the fight for equality in men and women. The two were also known for their amazing literary works like, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Shelly’s husband was Percy Bysshe Shelley. Afterwards she got pregnant with his child at a delicate age. He was already married, but still had an affair with Mary Shelly. This made Percy’s first wife commit suicide. Percy was also known for publishing the literary works, Zastrozzi and St. Irvyne.

URL citation(s): http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/shelleybio.html

2. THE SUMMER OF 1816: Explain the events that led to Mary Shelley writing the story Frankenstein. What discussions influenced the development of the idea she had for this story? …show more content…

From events of cynically gloomy tremendous thundering to spending time abroad with Percy, Byron and Polidori. All started writing a horror story of their own. Frankenstein was developed when Mary Shelly had lost her baby. She faced emotions of isolation from motherhood and mental trauma. Shelly had the developing ideas, plot, and gloomy, dark setting for Frankenstein when she went to bed one night waking up to a bad nightmare. The next day Mary woke up writing her book Frankenstein, she wrote the opening of Chapter IV of Frankenstein, “It was on a dreary night in

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