#Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley

[burningvelvet]

Happy 226th birthday to Mary Shelley!

“It is not singular that, as the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity, I should very early in life have thought of writing. As a child I scribbled; and my favourite pastime, during the hours given me for recreation, was to ‘write stories.’ Still I had a dearer pleasure than this, which was the formation of castles in the air — the indulging in waking dreams — the following up trains of thought, which had for their subject the formation of a succession of imaginary incidents. My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. In the latter I was a close imitator — rather doing as others had done, than putting down the suggestions of my own mind. What I wrote was intended at least for one other eye — my childhood's companion and friend; but my dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed — my dearest pleasure when free.”

— from the 1831 preface of Frankenstein.

[suddenly-frankenstein]

1.

I weep for Adonais — he is dead!

Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears

Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!

And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years

To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers,

And teach them thine own sorrow, say: "With me

Died Adonais; till the Future dares

Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be

An echo and a light unto eternity!"

— «Adonais» by Percy B. Shelley

The Creature and Victor Frankenstein as «Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis» by Benjamin West.

[laddersofsweetmisery]

fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, the Anti-Jacobin Review

of course when a woman (or anyone for that matter) starts to make strides and encourages social reform, they'll jump at any chance to discredit her by even using her death as an opportunity to be absolute misogynistic trash.

they literally look for any opening they can to justify their hatred so that they can openly hate others while marketing it as a "logical opinion." And looking at our current state of affairs...has anything really changed???

they'll hate you and call it reason.

fuck fuck fuck

[runboybeneaththemoon]

Since Agatha Christie and the other english poets are probably gonna be the next big villains, I hope we're gonna see Mary Shelley again

[waateeystein]

According to StoryGraph, I am only 5% into Romantic Outlaws. However, even after just one day of reading, taking notes, and only getting 3 chapters read in that time, I would like to really recommend you all check this book out. So far it's been a really fascinating read, paralleling Mary Shelley and her mother Mary Wollstonecraft's lives to each other. If I wasn't taking notes, I'd probably be getting through it faster, it's a genuine page turner. The entire book is very long, but the chapters have been super digestible, and the author writes as if she is telling a story, like it just flows so well without being overly academic. I got my copy from my university library, but I also saw it at my local city library, I really recommend picking it up if you're interested in a Mary Shelley biography.

Hopefully I'll have more to say when I'm more than 5% in lol, but so far so good! Also yay for summer giving me free evenings again to get back into reading, and having a good book to try out new note-taking methods on.

[thegoldenorb]

Mafia Fam AU: In the Q-centric chapter of Part 1 when Adam and Mary come to Japan, Adam brings Shirase because He Did Not Understand The Assignment™, and took Chuuya’s request for Mary’s expertise as a request to get the Storm Bringer Band™ back together. So, Shirase is there, but not contributing anything (same thing he did in Storm Bringer lmao).

[britneyshakespeare]

The shy bachelor Godwin thought that Mary Robinson was not only intelligent and "Rational," but also incomparably beautiful. His daughter Mary Shelley recorded that "Among his acquaintances were several women, to whose society he was exceedingly partial, and who were all distinguished for personal attractions and talents. Among them may be mentioned the celebrated Mary Robinson, whom to the end of his life he considered as the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, but though he admired her so greatly, their acquaintance scarcely attained intimate friendship."

Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, and Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson (2004) by Paula Byrne, page 322, contained in the beginning of Chapter 22: Radical

[knittingdaisies]

I can’t sleep because I am so fucking angry at Mary Wollstonecraft’s husband and Mary Shelley’s father, William Godwin. This scum married the Inventor of feminism. She was writing shit that is still radical today! And then he knocked her up and she died because the goddamn fucking doctor didn’t wash his hands before brutally tearing out her placenta. Then Godwin wrote a memoir that systematically ruined everything she stood for. He discounted her independence. He ignored her intelligence. He wrote her, the woman so strongly passionate about expressing women’s inner lives, through the lens of whichever man was fucking closest. He alienated her sisters because he didn’t care to consult them about her even though she took care of them intimately her whole fucking life. He didn’t even care to learn her mother’s damn maiden name. I wish I could go back in time and eviscerate him. I wish a doctor with dirty fucking cadaver hands would shove germs into his goddamn fucking penis. And then he proceeds to disown his daughter for shacking up with a guy out of wedlock (after writing against the institution of marriage and wait, was that also him shacking up with Mary Wollstonecraft out of wedlock? You fucking hypocrite) while expecting her and Percy to support him and his miserable wife? Then he spends the rest of his life mooching off of his widowed daughter who is literally supporting herself and her son by writing, which is so hard because she’s a fucking woman in the nineteenth century. YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING WORM. YOU ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH. IF I COULD KILL YOU AGAIN I WOULD YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING PIECE OF SHIT.

[sarnie-for-varney]

"You cannot resist hurting him."

...

"People like Polidori live for such treatment... and would die for want of it."

- Alice Krige (Mary Shelley) and Phillip Anglim (Lord Byron) in Haunted Summer (1988)

[zomb13friday]

Bruce Tim - Bride of Frankenstein

[burningvelvet]

At the bookstore today I saw this new Mary Shelley game. It may seem like a cash-grab but honestly I think Mary herself would LOVE this. Mary's father William Godwin owned a children's bookstore which sold games as well. When they weren't writing some of the most acclaimed 18th century philosophy, he and his first wife Mary Wollstonecraft also wrote some childrens literature, and both focused heavily on youth education in their belief system. Later, Mary and Percy Shelley (both inspired by her parents, whom they idolized) also worked on childrens stories together and bonded over their mutual love for children, games, education, and imaginative play all around.

The description reads thus: "Contained within these three volumes is a secret many have devated their entire lives to unearthing, and always in vain. It is a secret I would have taken with me to the grave, except that it is, in more ways than ane, our family's legacy, and thus rightfully belongs with you.

"You have just received 'The Shelley Volumes,' a collection of hollowed-out books left by Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) to her son, Florence. Inside you'll discover a trove of beautiful documents, 2D and 3D jigsaw puzzles, and other mysterious objects and artifacts. Solve Mary's puzzles and you'll be treated to a heartbreaking story that culminates in a shocking reimagining of the truth behind her famous novel."

From the website: "Mother of Frankenstein is a groundbreaking new game that combines the best of escape rooms, immersive theater, and prose fiction."

[nublium-penna]

“There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I will indulge the other.”

— Frankenstein (1818). Mary Shelley.

[evviejo]

historical figures in the thirteenth doctor’s era: mary wollstonecraft godwin shelley you didn't want to be this way. they hurt you, this modern prometheus.

[women-throughout-history]

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was a trailblazing writer and passionate advocate for women’s rights, whose ideas were far ahead of her time. Her most famous work, ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ is considered to be one of the earliest texts advocating for gender equality, making her a key figure in the history of feminism. She argued that women, like men, are rational beings and deserve equal education. This belief stemmed from the idea that for society to progress, both men and women need the tools to contribute intellectually and socially. Born in 1759, Wollstonecraft didn’t come from a wealthy or influential family, but her personal drive and intellectual curiosity pushed her to become a self-educated thinker, reading texts such as the Bible, of ancient philosophers, Shakespeare, and Milton. At age 24, she started a girls’ school with her sisters and friend, Fanny Blood, in Newington Green, which played a crucial role in shaping her ideas about education and equality. Her first work, ‘Thoughts on the Education of Daughters’ (1786), laid the foundation for her later writings on women’s liberation. She firmly believed that if women were denied the same education as men, society would suffer as a whole. Wollstonecraft’s life was marked by her fierce independence. As a writer in London, she became part of a group of political radicals known as the Rational Dissenters. Her social circle included figures like William Godwin, whom she later married. Living through the tumultuous French Revolution, she closely followed the Enlightenment’s emphasis on reason and political liberty, principles that greatly influenced her work. Her ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Men’ (1790) was a response to Edmund Burke’s critique of the revolution and aristocracy. It set the stage for her later arguments for women’s equality. In 1794, she had a daughter, Fanny, with American entrepreneur Gilbert Imlay, but their relationship ended in heartbreak. She attempted suicide twice, first in May, then in October 1795. Wollstonecraft eventually found happiness with philosopher William Godwin, with whom she had her second daughter, Mary Shelley—who would go on to write ‘Frankenstein’. Sadly, Wollstonecraft died shortly after giving birth in 1797. Despite her short life, Wollstonecraft’s legacy is enormous. She laid the groundwork for future generations of feminists, emphasising that women deserve the same educational and intellectual opportunities as men.

Mary Wollstoncraft’s Writings: A Vindication of the Rights of Women Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

[nejjcollectsbooks]

Still new to aesthetically taking pictures of books, so please forgive me. I really like the dark academia aesthetic and I'm trying to replicate it in my daily writing blogs and general book posts. Here are some of my favourite lines:

"And thou, strange Star, ascendant at my birth which rained, they said, kind influence on the earth so from great parents sprung I dared to boast Fortune my friend..." - From a poem written By Mary Shelley.

"How much is lost by those who pass their lives in cities - They are never visited by those sweet feelings which to recollect alone is heaven ... how boundless and terrific would be their surprise if they could suddenly become philosophers and view things in their true and beautiful point of view." - From the journals of Claire Clairmont, 17 August 1814.

Taken from the biography were the author quotes from the jorunals of Mary Shelley's step-sister.

"Be happy. Resolve to be happy, Godwin urged her on 17 August. You deserve to be so. Everything that interferes with it is weakness and wandering; and a woman like you, can, must, shall, shake it off." - From a letter William Godwin sent to Mary Wollstonecraft.

Taken from the biography, the author includes a snippet of correspondence between Mary Shelley's parents.

I made the silly green bookmark. when I buy books I rip out the first page that has the title of the book and the author's name and I craft a bookmark using that page of the book.

I loved this biography and could not get enough of it. The author is incredibly talented, to have written over 600 pages of a nonfiction book that had me hooked from the first page. Her writing is poetic, and lyrical, rivalling the author she writes about.

I'm only now realising my mistake, I've only posted the quotes she quoted from other sources and not her writing, so the next post I make about this book I'll show samples of her own writing.

[franken-loser]

If there was a career i could have that was just researching Mary and Percy Shelley and their lives

(and all the people around them like mary wollstonecraft, william godwin, john polidori, lord byron, claire clairemont, ((percy shelleys family though j haven't researched hardly anything on them)) and even though shes not directly related to those ppl, i love ada lovelace ((one of lord byrons kids))

I would SOOO pursue that career cause i swear to god i can research these guys for hours on end, i find their lives incredibly interesting