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See also:SHELLEY, See also:MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1797-1851) , See also:English writer, only daughter of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Godwin and his wife Mary Wollstonecraft, and second wife of the poet See also:Percy Bysshe Shelley, was See also:born in See also:London on the 3oth of See also:August 1797. For the See also:history of her girlhood and of her married See also:life see, GODwIN, WILLIAM, and SHELLEY, P.B. When she was in See also:Switzerland with Shelley and See also:Byron in 1816 a proposal was made that various members of the party should write a See also:romance or See also:tale dealing with the supernatural. The result of this project was that Mrs Shelley wrote See also:Frankenstein, Byron the beginning of a narrative about a vampyre, and Dr Polidori, Byron's physician, a tale named The Vampyre, the authorship of which used frequently
' It is further worthy of remark that the See also:young of C. variegata when first hatched closely resemble those of C. rutila, and when the former assume their first plumage they resemble their See also:father more than their See also:mother (P.Z.S., 1866, p. 15o).in past years to be attributed to Byron himself. Frankenstein, published in 1818, when Mrs Shelley was at the utmost twenty-one years old, is a very remarkable performance for so young and inexperienced a writer; its See also:main See also:idea is that of the formation and vitalization, by a deep student of the secrets of nature, of an adult See also:man, who, entering the See also:world thus under unnatural conditions, becomes the terror of his See also:species, a See also:half-involuntary criminal, ,and finally an outcast whose See also:sole resource is self-immolation. This romance was followed by others: Valperga, or the Life and Adventures of Castruccia, See also:Prince of See also:Lucca (1823), an See also:historical tale written with a See also:good See also:deal of spirit, and readable enough even now; The Last Man (1826), a fiction of the final agonies of human society owing to the universal spread of a pestilence—this is written in a very See also:stilted See also:style, but possesses a particular See also:interest because See also:Adrian is a portrait of Shelley; The Fortunes of See also:Perkin See also:Warbeck (1830); Lodore (1835), also bearing partly upon Shelley's See also:biography, and Falkner (1837). Besides these novels there was the See also:Journal of a Six See also:Weeks' Tour (the tour of 1814 mentioned below), which is published in See also:conjunction with Shelley's See also:prose-writings; and Rambles in See also:Germany and See also:Italy in 1840-1842-1843 (which shows an observant spirit, capable of making some true forecasts of the future), and various See also:miscellaneous writings. After the See also:death of Shelley, for whom she had a deep and even enthusiastic See also:affection, marred at times by defects of See also:temper, Mrs Shelley in the autumn of 1823 returned to London. At first the earnings of her See also:pen were her only sustenance; but after a while See also:Sir See also:Timothy Shelley made her an See also:allowance, which would have been withdrawn if she had persisted in a project of See also:writing a full biography of her See also:husband. In 1838 she edited Shelley's See also:works, supplying the notes that throw such invaluable See also:light on the subject. She succeeded, by strenuous exertions, in maintaining her son Percy at See also:Harrow and See also:Cambridge; and she shared in the improvement of his See also:fortune when in 184o his grandfather acknowledged his responsibilities and in 1844 he succeeded to the baronetcy. She died on the See also:list of See also:February 1851.
End of Article: SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1797-1851)
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