Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was an English novelist best known for *Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus* (1818), widely considered the first true science fiction novel.
She wrote the story at age eighteen during a ghost story competition while staying near Lake Geneva with her future husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron.
The daughter of feminist philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft and political writer William Godwin, she was steeped in radical intellectual circles from birth.
Frightening imaginary creature
- creatureLiving, sentient entity
- creationMaking something exist
- VictorName signifying conquest
- laboratoryFacility for scientific investigation
electricity · reanimation · experiment · grave-robbing · animation · ethics · obsession · madness
Writer of prose narratives
- authorCreator of written works
- writerCreator of texts
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- biographerOne who writes lives
editor · journalist · prose · fiction · narrative · publication · manuscript · Mathilda
Extreme fear or disgust
- terrorExtreme, overwhelming fear
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- darknessTotal absence of light
atmosphere · haunting · castle · ruin · secret · dread · uncanny · suspense
Forum argument trajectory rule
- PercyTraditional male given name
- elopementSecret departure to wed
- scandalDisgraceful public affair
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
widowhood · motherhood · grief · loss · miscarriage · Italy · Geneva · London
Awe-inspiring greatness
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- emotionComplex psychological state
- natureInherent quality or disposition
- individualismDoctrine of personal independence
transcendence · passion · melancholy · idealism · beauty · genius · liberty · revolution
monster
Frightening imaginary creature
laboratory · electricity · reanimation · experiment · grave-robbing · animation · ethics · obsession · madness · isolation
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
biographer · editor · journalist · prose · fiction · narrative · publication · manuscript · Mathilda · travelogue
horror
Extreme fear or disgust
- terrorExtreme, overwhelming fear
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
darkness · atmosphere · haunting · castle · ruin · secret · dread · uncanny · suspense · shadow
Godwin
Forum argument trajectory rule
tragedy · widowhood · motherhood · grief · loss · miscarriage · Italy · Geneva · London · journals
sublime
Awe-inspiring greatness
- imaginationFaculty for forming ideas
- emotionComplex psychological state
- natureInherent quality or disposition
individualism · transcendence · passion · melancholy · idealism · beauty · genius · liberty · revolution · inspiration
- Famous AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hemingway, Twain
- Women WritersJane Austen, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Anne Bronte
- Young AuthorsS.E. Hinton, Anne Frank
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- historical womenCleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale
Mary ShelleyHarriet Beecher Stowe
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