#dr. mary wollstonecraft shelley

[videogamelover99]

"You sure?" "I am. I determined that you would never order me to do anything unwise."

-Stormbringer

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[Storm Bringer]

“In fact, I was against using Adam for such a frivolous investigation from the very start,” Dr. Wollstonecraft began in a huff as she crossed her arms again. “The government is always like this. They send a mechanical detective, then blow him up once they’re done to keep any secret information from getting out. [..] I suppose this is the government’s way of saying we ought to neglect science in favor of human life!”

Dr. Wollstonecraft, ma'am, I think your ethically-dubious opinions on science are better saved for other audiences.

Dr. Wollstonecraft (aka Mary Shelley) based on @videogamelover99's design!

[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

[laddersofsweetmisery]

So excited to start the books I've picked out for October. I'm especially eager to read this little beauty. Two chapters in and I'm appreciative of the amount of research and care taken to tell the lesser-known elements of the behind-the-scenes narrative of Mary Shelley's masterpiece, Frankenstein. She's so fascinating. More so, I am always floored by anything new I learn regarding her mother, often regarded as the first feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft. Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler, is a biography of sorts exploring the lives and work of Mary Shelley’s haunted circle of literary contemporaries—with a particular focus on the four poets and friends with her the stormy night she was inspired to write her gothic tale. Also featured in the book are those who influenced her magnum opus, Frankenstein, but were only in the room with her in spirit.

Poets and friends from that stormy night:

Lord Byron was that famous English Poet described in the book as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.” He’s attractive, intimidating, and has a thing for scaring his guests. After frightening his guests with a reading of Fantasmagoriana, a collection of German horror stories, during a stormy night, he proposed a contest where they all take a shot at writing a ghost story of their own.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, or “Mad Shelley,” was fascinated by the occult and married to our equally fascinating Mary Shelley. He wasn’t as popular for his work during his life, likely because it was cut short when he drowned at 29, but his work gained notoriety after his death. He is considered one of the major English Romantic poets.

Dr. John Polidori is credited for the first and most influential novel about a human vampire: The Vampyre. His haunted figure is likely inspired by Byron himself. The two didn’t really get along. The Vampyre was also written as part of the ghost story contest proposed by Lord Byron.

Claire Clairmont was the mother of Lord Byron’s illegitimate child and Shelley’s stepsister.  

Before we make our way into Mary Shelley’s circle, we are introduced to her immutable parents William Godwin and his wife, who I’m casually obsessed with, Mary Wollstonecraft. No joke, their love story will bring you to literal tears, my god. I felt genuinely sick reading about her death and how those who very clearly despised her feminist views took her death as an example of the weakness of her sex. I hope she haunted those fuckers to madness.

Wanna read with me this October? I'll be reading the following books over this month, feel free to pick them up, too! This year, the classics are calling my name 🎃🕯 Since starting Monsters, I'm really craving more so I’ll be reading and rereading works that relate to it in some way :)

Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein, by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (We’re starting here, obviously.)

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (We just have to!!!) Available on Kindle Unlimited

An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, by William Godwin (We just have to read from the parents who raised our beloved Mary Shelley.)

The Wrongs of Woman, or, Maria, by Mary Wollstonecraft (Again, we have to! Plus, it’s one of my favorites. I need to share it with everyone who crosses my path.)

Fantasmagoriana, “Tales of the Dead” (Why not read what inspired that stormy night writing contest?) Available on Kindle Unlimited

Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals, edited by Leslie Marchand (I wanna know more about this fella. He is also mentioned in The Wager. This one might be a little hard to find, but I’ll post what I can.)

The Vampyre, by Dr. John Polidori (Let’s end our October reading about a lil vamp and finding the comparisons to Byron.) Available on Kindle Unlimited

I'll be posting my thoughts and pages that stick out to me at the end of each day <3

[marygodwin-bsd]

Canon Mary BSD...

i went and checked the canon Mary shelley bsd wiki and i got... very mad

not because there was a mary shelley in BSD, im just really mad they did her so dirty

like... SOOOOO DIRTY

asagiri when i CATCH YOU for making her a loli scientist i effin SWEAR--

anyway i was mad abt that for like 2, 3 hours??? then i figured out how to make sure i could still have my mary and have her exist alongside Asagiris Dr. Wollstonecraft.

ill probably go on a rant about it sometime soon but i have to update my top post before i do that <3

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Umm, off topic, but I am SO into this!!! https://variety.com/2023/film/news/guillermo-del-toro-frankenstein-andrew-garfield-oscar-isaac-mia-goth-1235555256/

I have faith that GDT will be able to do Mary Shelley justice. Also hoping that Isaac will play the monster while Garfield will be Dr. Frankenstein. I think they'll be able to nail the roles the other way as well. This is so exciting!! Hope Netflix doesn't blow this.

Okay, I guess this could be good. I'm on the fence with Del Toro. Sometimes I like his stuff, sometimes not.

You know what I really wish, though? I really wish someone would make a version of Frankenstein that truly respects Mary Shelley's book, and not just make a monster movie.

Frankenstein is not a book about a monster. Frankenstein is an allegory of the female author dealing with overwhelming grief in her life due to the death of her children. When she originated the idea in 1816, she had already had two children die in infancy, as well as possibly some other lost pregnancies. Her sister had also had children die. By the time of its publication in 1818, her third child had died. Only her fourth child, born in 1819, would survive to be an adult. By the time she was 25, she had also lost her husband. Add the final layer onto this: Mary Shelley was a motherless child, her own exceptional mother Mary Wollstonecraft having died after birthing her. Frankenstein is fundamentally about birthing death. It is ultimately a book only a woman in the 19th century could have written, as no male author would have so intimately felt that connection of birth and death.

I would like to see a film version that actually tackles that theme, and doesn't just go with the showy monster take.

[super-powerful-queen-reyna]

Here's my list of forgotten/cool women from history. Please take it, reblog it with more, spread it, learn about them, make books about them:

Lucy (slave used for experimentations on the uterus)

Nightwitches from WW2

Grace Hopper

Mary Anning

Maria Mitchell

Ada Lovelace

Kate Warne

Agnes Barre

Flora Tristan

Olympe de Gouges

Eleanor Roosevelt

Bessie Smith

Sylvia Plath

Sweet Tee

Lady D (the rapper)

The Sequence

Lady B

Rachel Carson

Baya

Tahireh

Lalla Fatma N'Soumer

Rosalind Franklin

Miriam Makeba

Alexandra David Néel

Suzanne Noël

Helena Rubinstein

Katherine Switzer

Jeanne Barret

Sophie Germain

Katherine Johnson

Margaret Hamilton

Hedy Lamarr

Betty Snyder Holberton

Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli

Marilyn Wescoff Meltzer

Frances Bilas Spence

Ruth Lichteman Teitelbaum og Jean Jennings Bartik

Valerie Thomas

Karen Sparck Jones

Dr Shirley Ann Jackson

Radia Perlman

Stacy Horn

Dr Betty Harris

Beulah Louise Henry

Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler

Empress Zenobia of the Palmyrene Empire

Surya Bonaly

Dolly Parton

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Shelley

Queen Nzinga of Ndongo Kingdom

Queen Yaa Asantewa Ashanti

Empress Candace of Ethiopia

Queen Sarraounia Mangou of Aznas Kingdom

Dona Beatriz

Mileva Marić

Matoaka

Janet Sobel

Claudette Colvin

Marsha P. Johnson

Marian Anderson

Madam CJ Walker

Frida Kahlo

Mirka Mora

Dahomey Amazons

The 40 Elephants

Diamond Alice

Maggie Bailey

Julie d'Aubigny

Bessie Coleman

Policarpa Salavarrieta

Annie Oakley

Anna Julia Cooper

Sojourner Truth

Ida B. Wells

Shirley Chisholm

Mary Church Terrell

Audre Lorde

Harriet Tubman

Maria W. Stewart

Angela Davis

Florynce Kennedy

Jocelyn Bell

Alice Ball

Lise Meitner

Chien Shiung Wu

Marie Tharp

Elizabeth Blackwell

Amanirenas

Wu Zetian

[burningvelvet]

I love the Romantics (esp 2nd gen) and was wondering where you learn more about them outside an academic setting?

I am by no means an expert, but I will try to answer by using stuff that has helped me!

For books, I highly recommend Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay as an introduction to the second generation Romantics. My only complaint is that it leaves out a ton of entertaining stuff imo, but it’s meant to be brief. It isn’t available for free anywhere afaik, but it’s very worth buying. It gives an overview of the movement & explains how all the key figures are interrelated in a very clever way. For biographies imo the best on Byron is Byron: a Portrait by Marchand, most agree the best on Shelley is Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes, most agree the best on Mary is Miranda Seymour’s Mary Shelley, & the best on Keats is (more arguably?) John Keats by Walter Jackson Bates. For critical analysis on the works, it’s best to research on a case-by-case basis (there are literally thousands of books & papers analyzing Frankenstein… I shudder to think of attempting to read even half of them).

This link to the BARS Blog "Romanticism: online resources list" -- https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=2900 -- is a fantastic resource list by Dr. Anna Mercer who is an important Romanticist. She wrote a work called The Collaborative Literary Relationship of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2019) which is also one of my favorites & I highly highly recommend it as well.

Other good resource guides: 1 University of Texas at Arlington Romantic Resources under the internet & lib headings https://libguides.uta.edu/romantic/resources 2 Jack Lynch of Rutgers Romantic resources list https://jacklynch.net/Lit/romantic.html 3 Uni of Pittsburgh Romantic research guide under the links heading https://pitt.libguides.com/romanticism/links 4 Queen's Uni Romantic research guide https://guides.library.queensu.ca/engl340/websites

Having access to databases and libraries really helps, but those are academic (unless you have a public library—if so, pls use it). If I’m researching a broad topic I sometimes start through Wikipedia & go from there, searching for what information I need by “phrase searching” on Google.

IMPORTANT ADVICE: this will all feel very overwhelming and confusing at first! I highly suggest just picking a work or a writer, finding something that really interests you, then learn more about it/them if you’d like, & just continue from there as a starting point. For me: I knew a *little* about these writers, and I’ve always loved Frankenstein, but I didn’t start any heavy Romantic research until I read Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Lord Byron, specifically Canto III, which is considered one of his best works and one of the key Romantic works in general. It really shook me to my core. I believe I discovered it from the Wikipedia page on the “Byronic Hero” concept (which stemmed from Childe Harold). I really just went down the rabbit hole from there… and I don’t know how I got here…

Good luck on your journey, and thx for the ask!

Btw — despite being an English Lit major, I haven’t actually studied Romanticism in any of my classes sadly! I just haven’t had the opportunity or it hasn’t come up; my program is mainly based on modern topics though, and so most of us only get to take a few historical classes. But my research on this has been independent. The first gen Romantics have been briefly discussed in one or two of my classes, and Frankenstein has featured in a lot of my classes, but that’s in a league of it’s own really—it’s one of the very few classic novels that most Americans are familiar with tbh!

[jennyviviandee]

"The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated strengthen the body and form the heart. Or in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as render it independent."

On this day in 1797, English poet and author Mary Shelley (Wollstonecraft was her original last name: her father was political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was feminist Mary Wollstonecraft) was born. She became Shelley after marrying Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. She edited and promoted the works of his. In 1818, at the age of 18 she'd anonymously publish Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, a genius novel. Shelley's name appeared on the second edition of the first true science fiction story five years later (1823). 1831 would bring the most widely read version of Frankenstein that included a new and longer preface from Shelly herself.

In 1822, Percy drowned when his sailing ship sank during a storm in Viareggio, Italy. In 1823, Shelley would return to England with her son Percy Florence Shelley (after three other attempted children ended with death prior to Percy's birth in her life) with her focus on raising him whilst being a professional writer. Alas, the final decade of her life was full of strife (illness) likely caused by the brain tumor that killed her at age 53 (1851).

The book image I posted was the cover of the version I read many years ago now. To the best of my knowledge, I've read at least two published versions of Shelly's Frankenstein. The 1831 and 1818 ones, I think. I have unfortunately misplaced the book somewhere. Still haven't found it...

Even though Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the scientist's name, his creation actually has no name. I believe Shelley chose Victor in reference to John Milton's Paradise Lost that frequently labels God as "the Victor". Not to mention there's a quote from Paradise Lost serving as the book's epigraph as well.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay

To mould Me man? Did I solicit thee

From darkness to promote me?

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

Victor's decision to "play God" would lead to his creation being made. Dr. Frankenstein displays hubris in thinking he could generate life like God. Then feigns responsibility for his own creation after giving it life.

Erroneously the name Frankenstein has been associated with Victor's creation. Even in some official play adaptations and films despite being incorrect. The closest to a name Dr. Frankenstein's creation receives is when he calls himself "the Adam of your labours", and elsewhere as someone who "would have" been "your Adam", but is instead "your fallen angel." Her word usage of "Adam" is in probably a reference to the story of Adam and Eve. The rest of the time he's identified as a "wretch", "creature", "monster", "demon", and "it" in Shelley's groundbreaking influential novel that is a horror, science fiction, and a tragedy all at once. Similar to Clint Eastwood's Man Without a Name, Dr. Victor Frankenstein's creation is An Entity Without a Name.

It is a tale I absolutely recommend checking out (that is one of my favorites from one of my favorite authors). Same applies to the 1931 film adaptation of Shelley's famous Frankenstein (based more on a 1927 play from Peggy Webling and John D. Balderston than her novel) from openly gay Hollywood director James Whale. Boris Karloff gives an impeccable performance in it.

[sairenecomics]

My rendition of Dr. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from Bungou stray dogs Stormbringer stage play since she had no canon art yet- I just tried to copy the stage play and it's not really very good but it's okay for me tho- well yeahhh

[carigmonier]

-La mujer del astronauta. (La cara oculta) Rand Ravich

Los monstruos

1 - Bebés muertos

Un verano, un verano bizarro como pocos, me pescó leyendo el trabajo de Allouch sobre el duelo. Se trataba sobre “Ajó, el monstruo del cielo”, el relato de Kenzaburo Oé. Ese mismo verano cayó en mis manos una copia en video de “Gothic”, la película de Ken Russel, y esa sola y larga imagen que ofrece la clave del monstruo. El bebé, tal vez el feto, que se balancea lentamente en el agua. Ojos y boca hinchados, sellados, casi cosidos, el bebé muerto se mece suavemente entre las plantas acuáticas, en el fondo del río. Esa es, en la versión de Russel, la razón de la escritura de Frankenstein.

La pregunta entonces se presentó así: ¿Cómo es que un bebé muerto -en la Inglaterra del siglo XIX y en el Japón actual-, da por resultado un monstruo?

Y un monstruo no es una cosa frecuente.

“Ajó, el monstruo del cielo”, es uno de los tantos relatos de Oé que rondan sobre la paternidad y la monstruosidad de su hijo, nacido con un tumor en la cabeza tan gigantesco que parecía una “segunda cabeza”. En el relato, el padre -en idéntica situación que el autor- deja morir al niño que necesitaría una extensa cirugía para sobrevivir convertido en un vegetal. Ese monstuo-bebé innominado persigue desde el cielo al padre alucinado.

También el monstruo de Mary Shelley persigue al Dr. Frankenstein hasta el polo norte, reclamándole la paternidad y no haberle dado siquiera un nombre.

En ambos casos el monstruo no tiene nombre, en ambos casos ejerce una extensa e implacable persecución de un padre en falta.

A los 17 años de edad, prófuga junto a un hombre casado, Mary Wollstonecroft -que sólo años después sería Mary Shelley- dio a luz a un bebé. La situación no era precisamente confortable. Harriet, la esposa legítima de Shelley, había dado a luz unos meses antes que ella. La pareja estaba en fuga de sus familias, escondiéndose de los acreedores, y sosteniendo la relación entre ellos en unas inestables configuraciones triangulares. No debía carecer de resonancias allí la otra Mary Wollstonecraft, madre de Mary, mujer renombrada tanto por su brillo intelectual como por lo escandaloso de su vida. El primer embarazo de la madre de Mary también cursó en plena fuga con un hombre que, si bien no era casado, la abandonó para casarse con otra mujer durante los primeros meses de pregnancia. Su segundo embarazo la mató -aparentemente por una septicemia- tras el nacimiento de Mary.

La bebé que Mary (hija) dio a luz se llamó Clara, y tenía alrededor de diez días de vida la noche del episodio que Ken Russell no relata pero al que alude. Mary se levanta en mitad de la noche, y se acerca silenciosamente a la cuna, con una lámpara en la mano, para amamantar al bebé. Pero algo la detiene. No toca al bebé ni le da de mamar. Vuelve a su cama y se acuesta sin haber visto lo que había que ver dentro de la cuna. Algo “evidente por su apariencia”, que ella, mirando, no puede ver.

Al día siguiente escribe:

“ Mi querido Hogg mi bebe está muerto - vendrás tan pronto como puedas? - quisiera verte - Estaba perfectamente bien cuando me fui a la cama - desperté en la noche para darle de mamar, parecía estar durmiendo tan quieto que no lo desperté - estaba muerto entonces pero no lo descubrimos hasta la mañana - por su apariencia evidentemente murió de convulsiones. - Ven - eres una criatura tan calma y Shelley teme la fiebre de la leche - por mí que ya no soy madre ahora”.

Este episodio, poderosamente siniestro, se sitúa en los cimientos de su larga construcción, letra tras letra, del monstruo del Dr. Frankenstein. Pearcy y Mary Shelley fueron, hasta la muerte del primero, una pareja tan prolífica en literatura como en niños muertos.

El niño de Kenzaburo Oé, por su parte -a diferencia del de su personaje en “Ajó, el monstruo del cielo”-, no murió de manera efectiva. Sin embargo, en la disyuntiva entre dejarlo morir o lanzarlo a una vida de vegetal, hay, en efecto, una muerte ineludible. El bebé de Kenzaburo era directamente y efectivamente un monstruo. El escribe:

“Como una planta acuática en la penumbra, tumbado con los ojos abiertos e inexpresivos, no era más que una presencia callada. (...). Ni siquiera lloraba. A veces dudada de que estuviera vivo.”

Cuando fueron a buscarlo tras un mes de internación el bebé estaba tan cambiado que apenas lo reconocieron: “Es como si le hubieran hecho algo horrible. Me sentí más alejado de él que si hubiera muerto. Total, que nos volvimos con las manos vacías”.

Es claro que se trata de un bebé muerto, tanto como en el personaje del padre del monstruo del cielo.

2 - Un monstruo cinematográfico

Las extrañas relaciones entre bebé y monstruo están bastante bien establecidas en los clásicos temores de la pregnancia, e incluso en el lenguaje común: el monstruo es una “criatura”; de alguien particularmente feo y deforme se dice que es “un feto”.

Es muy difícil en esta circunstancia no verse invadido por los grandes monstruos cinematográficos de nuestra época que apuntan, precisamente, en esa misma dirección. Una monstruosidad que mostró eficacia masiva no hace una década lo muestra claramente. ¿A quién no se le cortó la respiración cuando el Alien, perforando el tórax de su portador, saltó chillando hasta la mesa donde el desayuno transcurría amablemente?

Veamos brevemente qué sabemos de ese monstruo. Hay primero que nada un episodio de inseminación, por vía oral. El monstruo se desarrolla lenta y sigilosamente dentro del cuerpo de su anfitrión, alimentándose pacientemente en sus entrañas hasta que está en condiciones de sobrevivir por su cuenta. Entonces irrumpe desgarrando huesos, bañado en sangre, listo para matar.

Este relato es ni más ni menos que una teoría bizarra sobre la concepción y el alumbramiento que -como para darle el gusto a Freud- ignora la existencia de la vagina. Es lo más parecido a una teoría sexual infantil.

Por si a alguien le quedan dudas sobre las resonancias del octavo pasajero, las siguientes películas de la saga se ocupan de explicitarlo más y más. En la tercera película la Teniente Rippley debe hacerse una ecografía para definir si porta un alien o está embarazada. En la cuarta ella -que entretanto ha adquirido un ligero aire monstruoso- enuncia con claridad: “I’m the mother´s monster”.

Sin embargo, y curiosamente, la segunda película de la saga del Alien, presenta una inversión. El monstruo se devela en la imagen de una abeja reina que comanda el horror rodeada por sus huevos. La identificación es indudable: Eso es una madre. Para confirmarlo, como casualmente, aparece allí una niña, atrapada en su telaraña babosa, en pleno proceso de degradación orgánica, de disolución.

Pero en este caso también se da otra inversión. No sólo la “criatura” perseguirá a la Teniente Rippley hasta el último confín de la galaxia, sino que también la Teniente Rippley perseguirá a la “criatura”.

De más está decir que el Alien, como los monstruos literarios con que tropezamos más arriba, tampoco tiene nombre.

Estas son, como mínimo, unas convergencias curiosas tratándose de monstruos tan diferentes.

3 - La forma

Esto nos tienta a seguir explorando en algunas constantes del género cinematográfico. Género, por otra parte, repleto de constantes. Y la primera que salta a la vista es la cuestión de la forma del monstruo. La monstruosidad incluye por implicación a lo de-forme. Sin embargo la literatura cinematográfica va más allá. Incluye un slogan clásico que tiene el valor casi de una definición:

“Terror has no shape”

Este es el anuncio de un gran clásico del Terror: La Mancha

La incidencia de esta persistente fatalidad en el poeta, Pearcy Shelley, se presenta también en el registro de lo siniestro. Luego de la pérdida del cuarto bebé -en este caso nonato- Shelley sucumbió a extraños sueños angustiosos y alucinaciones. Mary y Edward Williams dan testimonio de algunas de estas visiones:

“Mientras andaba por la terraza, su propia imagen le salió al paso y le dijo: ¿Cuanto tiempo piensas estar satisfecho?”

[katareyoudrilling]

I’m taking @prolix-yuy up on the all play because this looked fun!

nickname: I’m not really a nickname person, but a friend of mine has started using my maiden name instead of my married one because we were talking one day about being kind of mad that we changed our names.  Patriarchy and all that

sign: pisces

height: 5’3”

last thing you googled: acoustic guitar mutes for Mr. Kat

song stuck in my head: all of Dr Horrible’s Sing along blog

number of followers: 210 and I think that’s pretty cool

amount of sleep: I am militant about sleep because it does not come easy to me. 8-9 hours

dream job: I have two.  I would love to be a book editor and I would love to be a sexologist.  I consider myself an amateur at both those things right now.  Maybe someday I’ll be more!

wearing: joggers and a t-shirt that says “feminists read romance”

movie/book that summarizes you: Booksmart, only instead of it being the night before graduation that I realize other people manage to be both serious and fun and decide to let loose, I was 35 😂

fav song currently: really loving Lizzo’s ��2 Be Loved”

aesthetic: minimalist with maximalist color

favourite author: this isn’t fair, I love so many.  One current favorite is Alexis Hall

random fun fact: the “Shelley” of Mary Shelley was Percy Shelley the poet 🤯 (I’m reading a fantastic biography of Mary Shelley and her mother Mary Wollstonecraft- highly recommend so far!)

np tags: @babiiface95 @grogusmum @lovesbiggerthanpride @wheresarizona @deadhumourist and anyone else who wants to play!

[easays]

reading list + notes

Using this space as a public space to chronicle my reading for my comprehensive exams.

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, John Cleland (1749)

The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman, Unknown (1778)

Mary: A Fiction, Mary Wollstonecraft (1788)

A Simple Story, Elizabeth Inchbald (1791)

Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft (1798)

Adeline Mowbray, Amelia Opie (1805)

Zofloya, or the Moore, Charlotte Dacre (1806)

The Woman of Colour: A Tale, Unknown (1808)

Laon and Cythna, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)

Mathilda, Mary Shelley (1819)

Hamel, or The Obeah Man, Cynric Williams (1827)

Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth (1832)

Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë (1847-48)

The Tenant of Wildefell Hall, Anne Brontë (1848)

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens (1849-50)

The Half-Caste, Dinah Mulock Craig (1851)

London Labour and the London Poor, Henry Mayhew (1862)

Cometh Up as a Flower, Rhoda Broughton (1867)

Middlemarch, George Eliot (1871-72)

The Uninhabited House, Charlotte Riddell (1875)

She, H. Rider Haggard

The Egoist, George Meredith (1879)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, James De Mille (1888)

A Marriage Below Zero, Alan Dale (1889)

Iola Leroy, Frances Harper (1892)

The Sorceress and the Strand and Other Stories, L.T. Meade (1893-1910)

A Sunless Heart, Edith Johnstone (1894)

The Three Imposters, Arthur Machine (1895)

The Library Window, Margaret Oliphant (1896)

The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells (1896)

Of One Blood, Pauline Hopkins (1902-1903)

The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, Ignatius Sancho, undated

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Nunzio Business

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/tzTc6vR by Chime_707 After a long day of recording videos and sending them to his editor Danny is just ready to lay down and take a nap, surrounded by numerous uselessly expensive PokeBalls and adorable plushies. As his head hits the pillow he can’t help but sigh happily, an old looking hippo plush close to his chest, and close his eyes. Perhaps the buzzing in his ears should have been worrying, or the feeling of distortion as he fell asleep, but Danny was just too tired to care. Well he should have. He really should have cared. Words: 87, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Categories: M/M Characters: Danny Motta (Video Blogging RPF), Edogawa Ranpo (Bungou Stray Dogs), Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs), Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs), Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs), Kunikida Doppo (Bungou Stray Dogs), Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (Bungou Stray Dogs), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Bungou Stray Dogs), Dr. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (Bungou Stray Dogs), Armed Detective Agency and Port Mafia Ensembles (Bungou Stray Dogs) Relationships: Edogawa Ranpo (Bungou Stray Dogs)/Danny Motta (Video Blogging RPF), Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya (Bungou Stray Dogs), Akutagawa Ryuunosuke/Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs) Additional Tags: Danny Motta centric, Danny Motta hating on Hawthorne, Not Canon Compliant, Fluff and Angst, slow burn?, Canon-Typical Violence, Swearing, How Do I Tag read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/tzTc6vR

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Kto był inspiracją dla postaci Dr. Frankenstein stworzonej przez Mary Shelley?

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Kto był inspiracją dla postaci Dr. Frankenstein stworzonej przez Mary Shelley?

Mary Shelley była brytyjską pisarką, która urodziła się w 1797 roku w Londynie. Jest znana głównie jako autorka kultowej powieści grozy "Frankenstein, czyli nowy Prometeusz", która była publikowana po raz pierwszy w 1818 roku. Jednak życie Mary Shelley było równie burzliwe i fascynujące jak jej dzieła literackie.

Mary Shelley była córką słynnego pisarza i filozofa Williama Godwina oraz feministki i pisarki Mary Wollstonecraft. Po śmierci matki w wyniku powikłań po porodzie, Mary została wychowywana przez ojca, który zaszczepił w niej pasję do literatury i filozofii. W wieku 16 lat poznała poety i filozofa Percy’ego Bysshe Shelley'ego, za którego wyszła za mąż pomimo jego ówczesnego małżeństwa.

W 1816 roku para udała się w podróż do Szwajcarii, gdzie spotkali Lorda Byrona. To właśnie wtedy podjęli wyzwanie napisania opowiadań grozy, co doprowadziło Mary do stworzenia swojego najsłynniejszego dzieła "Frankensteina". Powieść ta nie tylko zmieniła oblicze literatury grozy, ale także porusza ważne tematy filozoficzne, takie jak granice nauki, moralności czy odpowiedzialności twórcy za stworzenie.

Mary Shelley zmarła w 1851 roku, pozostawiając po sobie nie tylko arcydzieło literatury grozy, ale także inspirując kolejne pokolenia pisarzy i czytelników do refleksji nad ludzką naturą oraz konsekwencjami postępu naukowego. Jej życie i twórczość pozostaną na zawsze ważnym elementem historii literatury światowej.

Twórca literacki to osoba, która tworzy dzieła literackie, takie jak powieści, opowiadania, wiersze czy sztuki teatralne. Proces twórczy wymaga pasji, pomysłowości i zdolności do wyrażania myśli i emocji w sposób artystyczny. Twórca literacki może mieć różne cele - chce może inspirować innych, wywołać określone emocje czy po prostu podzielić się swoim osobistym światem w formie pisanej.

Jedną z kluczowych cech twórcy literackiego jest również umiejętność obserwacji i analizy otaczającego nas świata. Autorzy często czerpią z własnego doświadczenia, ale także potrafią przeanalizować zachowania, relacje społeczne czy zjawiska kulturowe, aby wzbogacić swoje teksty i sprawić, że będą one bardziej uniwersalne i zrozumiałe dla czytelnika.

Twórczość literacka może być formą relaksu, sposobem na wyrażanie własnych myśli i emocji, a także narzędziem do rozwoju osobistego. Dla niektórych jest również sposobem na zarabianie pieniędzy czy zdobywanie rozgłosu. Niezależnie od motywacji, twórczość literacka od wieków pełni ważną rolę w kształtowaniu kultury i dziedzictwa narodowego.

Twórczość literacka może przyjmować różne formy i gatunki, dlatego każdy autor ma możliwość znalezienia swojego własnego stylu i tematyki. Ważne jest, aby być autentycznym i wiernym swoim ideałom, ponieważ to właśnie dzięki nim można wykreować dzieła, które zostaną zapamiętane na długo i zainspirują kolejne pokolenia czytelników.

Mitologia grecka to fascynujący obszar starożytnej kultury, który jest nadal inspiracją dla wielu dziedzin sztuki i literatury współczesnej. W mitologii greckiej bogowie mieli ludzkie cechy, a ich historia była spleciona z losami śmiertelników. Na Olimpie zasiadali potężni bogowie, tacy jak Zeusz - władca niebios, Atena - bogini mądrości czy Afrodyta - bogini miłości. Każde z bogów miało swoje cechy i dziedziny, którymi opiekowało się nad ludźmi.

Mitologia grecka obfituje w liczne opowieści o herosach, takich jak Herakles czy Achilles, którzy swoimi czynami zdobywali sławę i zaszczyty. Herosi ci, mimo swojej odwagi i potęgi, niejednokrotnie byli poddawani próbom przez samych bogów, co sprawiało, że ich historia była niezwykle emocjonująca i pełna nieoczekiwanych zwrotów akcji.

Mitologia grecka zawiera również opowieści o tragicznych losach bohaterów, takich jak Odyseusz czy Medea, których decyzje i czyny przynosiły zarówno chwałę, jak i zgubę. Te opowieści ukazują złożoność ludzkiej natury oraz konflikty moralne, jakie często towarzyszą ludziom w ich życiu.

Dzięki mitologii greckiej możemy poznać nie tylko świat starożytnych Greków, ale również odkryć uniwersalne prawdy o ludzkiej naturze i relacjach międzyludzkich. To fascynujące źródło wiedzy, które nadal inspiruje artystów i badaczy na całym świecie, ukazując bogactwo i głębię starożytnej mitologii greckiej.

Literatura gotycka to fascynujący gatunek literacki, który narodził się w Europie w XII wieku i trwał aż do XVII wieku. Charakteryzuje się tajemniczym klimatem, mrocznymi opowieściami oraz baśniowym elementem. Główne motywy literatury gotyckiej to zamki nawiedzone przez duchy, tajemnicze przepowiednie, nieumarli oraz zakazane miłości.

Jednym z najbardziej znanych przykładów literatury gotyckiej jest powieść "Frankenstein" autorstwa Mary Shelley, która opowiada historię szaleńczego naukowca stworzyciela potwora. Innym znanym dziełem jest "Drakula" Brama Stokera, gdzie czytelnik zagłębia się w świat wampirów i mrocznych splotów.

Literatura gotycka odzwierciedlała fascynację społeczeństwa duchami, przesądami oraz niewytłumaczalnymi zjawiskami. Dzięki niej czytelnicy mogli doświadczyć emocji strachu, zdumienia i ekscytacji. Gatunek ten wpłynął na kulturę popularną, inspirował twórców filmowych, muzycznych oraz gier komputerowych.

Mimo że literatura gotycka nie jest już tak popularna jak kiedyś, wciąż pozostaje ważnym elementem historii literatury. Jej tajemniczy urok i ciemna atmosfera nadal przyciągają czytelników z całego świata, zachęcając ich do odkrywania niezwykłych opowieści i tajemniczych światów literackich.

Natchnienie twórcze, to fenomen, który od wieków intryguje artystów, pisarzy, kompozytorów oraz twórców wszelkich dziedzin sztuki. To chwila, w której pomysły zaczynają płynąć nieprzerwanie, kiedy każdy ruch dłoni jest precyzyjny, a każde słowo idealnie dobrane. Natchnienie twórcze jest niczym złoty środek dla artysty, pozwalając mu stworzyć dzieło, które porusza i inspiruje innych.

Jednym z elementów, które sprzyjają natchnieniu twórczemu, jest umiejętność skupienia. Zdolność do całkowitego zagłębienia się w proces tworzenia, pozwala na oderwanie się od codzienności i przeniesienie w zupełnie inny wymiar.

Ważne jest również otwarcie na inspiracje z zewnątrz. Czasem to zwykły spacer, rozmowa z przyjacielem czy nawet szum drzew mogą stać się iskrą, która zapali ogień twórczej pasji.

Natchnienie twórcze często przychodzi w najmniej spodziewanych momentach, dlatego warto zawsze mieć przy sobie notatnik, aby zatrzymać efemeryczne myśli i pomysły.

Brak presji czasu również sprzyja natchnieniu. Tworzenie bez pośpiechu pozwala na głębsze zanurzenie się w procesie twórczym i eksplorowanie różnych możliwości.

Ostatnią, ale nie mniej istotną kwestią jest wiara we własne możliwości. Twórcze natchnienie często pojawia się wtedy, kiedy artysta ma absolutną pewność, że może stworzyć coś wyjątkowego i niepowtarzalnego.

Podsumowując, natchnienie twórcze jest jak tajemniczy gość, który zjawia się niespodziewanie, ale zawsze w odpowiednim momencie. Dbając o odpowiednie warunki sprzyjające inspiracji, każdy może odczuć magię chwili, gdy pomysły same spływają, a tworzenie staje się łatwe i przyjemne.

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Writing Masterlist This is a blog dedicated to the anime Bungo Stray Dogs and the OCs I’ve made for it. Expect a lot of Kunikida content- I like him.

Here’s a guide to Mary for now. I’ll add to this post as I work on more ocs.

Note: I’m aware there’s already technically a Mary Shelley in the world of BSD but there’s barely anything on her and I didn’t know that until after I’d done a ton of oc work so it’s too late now lemme introduce you to Mary Godwin enjoy

Here's a short guide, its from my other blog

Mary Godwin (she/her)(reference to Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein). She is the cousin of Dr. Wollstonecraft. Age: 22 (Birthday is Aug. 30) Height: 5’0 ft (152.4 cm), with her platforms it’s 5’5 Personality: a little hard-headed and bold. She tries to be as independent as possible, and is very devoted to those she loves. She’s goth. Very private. Ability: “Modern Prometheus”- the ability to animate non living things (this includes severed limbs and dead bodies, but also inanimate objects such as lamps). This power has a range of 20 meters. It’s purple. Affiliation: Europle(previous), The Armed Detective Agency (current). She works as a forensic biologist. Family: Victor Godwin (son), Dr. Wollstonecraft (cousin) Mr. Godwin (father) Pets: They have 2 cats. Their names are Beans and Toast. Friends: The ADA, Kunikida Doppo (private romantic partner), Dazai Osamu, Yosano Akiko, Dr.W. Hobbies: watching thriller movies, experimenting with her ability, just hanging out with her kid, bug taxidermy

Victor Godwin (he/him)(a reference to Victor Frankenstein) Age: 3 or 4 (Birthday is March 30th ) Height: Personality: A very bright little boy who's a little too curious. Loves math.(COMING SOON) Ability: Reuse. He is able to drain people's strength and put it out towards other objects. this is temporary. Affiliation: the ADA, although only through his mother. I haven’t yet explored his future. Family: Mary Godwin (mother), Percy Shelley (biological father, has never met him), Mr. Godwin (grandfather, has also never met him), Dr. Wollstonecraft (cousin once removed) Pets: Frank, a rat he kept that used to be a class pet in pre-k but his teacher gave him away. Every time Frank dies, they get a new pet Frank. Friends: Children from daycare, he believes his mother’s adult friends are his friends (this includes Kunikida Doppo and Dazai Osamu) Hobbies: Junior Mathletes, “designing experiments”, trying to teach Frank tricks

Percy Shelley (they/he)(reference to Percy Shelley, romantic poet) Age: about 27 (birthday is August 4th) Height: 5'6 Personality: Loyal, flirtatious, fragile mental state. Bold only when it comes to protecting the ones who matter. Ability: "Mont Blanc," they can grow plants out of their body or the environment, but it comes out far too strong and it drains Percy of their strength. It has resulted in something close to chronic illness. Affiliation: Decay of Angels, specifically under Fyodor. kind of Fyodor's lapdog. Will follow any order given to him by Fyodor out of loyalty and wanting to be useful, even if it will hurt themself or other people. This will be expanded as I develop them more!