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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was most famously the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and the atheist [William Godwin]?, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 after the death of his first wife. |
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was most famously the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and the atheist [William Godwin]?, she married the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 after the suicide of his first wife. |
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Mary Shelley began work on Frankenstein when staying at Lord Byron's villa on [Lake Geneva]? in Switzerland. She incorporated a number of different sources into her work, not the least being the Promethean myth from Ovid. The influence of John Milton's [Paradise Lost]? can also be discerned within the novel. |
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Mary Shelley began work on Frankenstein in 1816 when staying at Lord Byron's villa on [Lake Geneva]? in Switzerland. She incorporated a number of different sources into her work, not the least being the Promethean myth from Ovid. The influence of John Milton's [Paradise Lost]? can also be discerned within the novel. Mary edited and notated her husband's works after his death in 1822 and also wrote a few more novels, none of which even begin to approach the fame and lasting power of Frankenstein. |
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