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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft: republican ideals feminist: for women’s education & independence died about 11 days after birth of Mary and William Godwin: egalitarian state, free of laws and gov’t, organized in small communities where worked and studied daily both against legalized marriage (married 5 months before Mary’s birth) 1797-1851

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley published her first poem at age 11 at 16 ran away with married Shelley to France and Switzerland wrote Frankenstein at 19 out of 4 children only one survived Percy drowned in a boating accident (1822) Mary died in 1851 Frankenstein considered a major gothic work and the first science fiction novel

Other titles: The Last Man (1826): the end of civilization, gradual destruction of human race, seen as a “total corrosion of patriarchal order” also: Mathilde (1819, not pub. until 1959) Proserpine and Midas, mythological drama (1820) Valperga (1823) The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830), Lodore (1835), Falkner (1837) Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) a variety of short stories, essays and poems

Frankenstein (1818, 1831) The Author’s introduction Walton’s letters: why does Shelley frame the novel with Walton’s letters? what issues/themes do they raise? the scientist and discovery: benefit to mankind glory the question of education parent-child relationship/responsibility gender characteristics / separation of sexes class friendship/isolation man vs. nature reliability of narrative transmission How are these issues developed in Frankenstein’s narrative?