6/19/2023 0 Comments Shelley mary wollstonecraftThus was this precocious and gifted writer poised to dramatize the clash of two cultures-the Enlightenment that celebrated reason and science and the Romantic age that celebrated passion and art. She was in a privileged position to craft this rich cultural-historical document because her father William Godwin was a leading enlightenment philosopher, her mother Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneer English feminist who defended the rights of women, and her husband Percy Shelley was a leading romantic poet. Title page of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, 1818. It has become a classic of English literature. Over two hundred years ago Mary Shelley, at age nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein.
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