#happy birthday mary shelley

[spineless-lobster]

In switzerland straight up frankin’ it and by “it” lets jusst say… my stein

[oneguardian15]

ohhh to be a 19th century writer in a group with friends and alongside your lover, where you’re all writers.. and you all have a little competition to see who can write the best spooky story…. ~sigh~

[burningvelvet]

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos . . ."

— Mary Shelley, from the introduction to Frankenstein (1831)

[smol-warrior-1258]

It must be fate that I'm seeing this on Mary Shelley's birthday

im not even the type of guy to go "actually it's frankenstein's MONSTER" because a painting by rembrandt or picasso or any other artist is often called "a rembrandt" or "a picasso" as shorthand. so in this respect frankenstein's monster can be considered "a frankenstein"

[frank-enthusiast]

Happy Frankenstein day!

Mary Shelley, author of "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus", which was first published in 1818, was born on this day in 1797 🥳

I don't really want to post my art directly to this Tumblr, but I'm still deciding what my first post should be on my art blog, so I decided to just post it here just this once.

I am currently reading the 1831 updated version of the novel for the first time, after a year and a half of searching for the "right copy" (a decent-looking hardcover copy that wasn't insanely priced!).

I drew this over the last few days, using graphite and Aquarelle pencils 🫀

I did my best to copy her signature for her name at the bottom ✏️

[kloppinthekop]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851)

[nellarw95]

Happy Birthday Maisie 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

Margaret Constance Williams

April 15,1997

Buon Compleanno 🥳🎂🎈🎁🎉

15 Aprile 1997

[knittingazoo]

Like Frankenstein building the Creature lol

The vivisection looking stage of making a knit plush is so fucking funny to me tbh.

like yeah, it's going to be adorable when it's done, but in that interim of time it looks like I'm doing morally questionable science on a muppet or whatever.

[spending-life-pretending]

Me: I hate Frankenstein adaptations!!! I’m tired of seeing them!!

The Royal Ballet: *adapts Frankenstein*

Me: ok one exception

[kittyfrog-0]

Happy birthday Mary Shelly!

+ some art of my Frankenstein oc 🔩

[hkayakh]

Hey guys did you know today is Mary Shelley’s birthday? Happy birthday Mary Shelley!

[hypo-critic-art]

Reblogging again for Mary Shelley’s birthday! :D

Portrait of Mary Shelley

my reproduction, acrylic on canvas - 2021

[burningvelvet]

The poet Percy Shelley was born on this day, 231 years ago!

“Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves. If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.” (“On Love”)

This is a rarely seen pencil sketch of him done by his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

(source: Literature in Perspective: Shelley by Gillian Carey, 1975; sketch credited to the Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas at Austin)

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday Mary Shelley!

Mary was born on August 30th, 1797. She is best known for pioneering the sci-fi genre when she wrote Frankenstein at just 19.

Mary was married to Percy Shelley from 1816 until his death six years later - she also described herself as “apt to get tousy-mousy for women” - in particular, her friend Jane Williams. Mary also provided support for other queer people in her life - in 1827, she obtained a false passport for her friend Doddy, who was assigned female at birth, to leave England and start a new life as a married man in France.

Check out our podcast on Mary to learn more!

[Image: Mary painted by Richard Rothwell c.1840]

[ellie-makes-mbs]

happy birthday, mary shelley!

[spectralarrovv]

this has been getting reblogs again and i would like everyone to know i now own over 60 copies of frankenstein and have not been normal about it since high school

my brain for the past week