Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Mary Shelley
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Standard Name: Shelley, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Married Name: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pseudonym: Mary S.
Pseudonym: Mrs Caroline Barnard
MS
, long known almost exclusively for Frankenstein, is now being read for her later novels and her plays, as well as for her journals and letters. Her editing, reviewing, biographical, and journalistic work entitle her to the designation woman of letters. She is an important figure among women Romantics, and a channel for the reformist ideals of the 1790s forwards into the Victorian era.
During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism,
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
Doctor Frankenstein begins as I, the performer / in the tense arena,
Atwood, Margaret, and Charles Pachter. Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein. Cranbrook Academy of Art.
i
working in a void upon emptiness. He confronts his potential creation like an opponent. The thing / refuses to be shaped, it...
Intertextuality and Influence
Margaret Atwood
Several of these poems, like Death of a Young Son by Drowning, treat actual incidents of Moodie's life while transforming the plaintive tone adopted in Moodie's own narratives into one of tragedy. Atwood's handling...
Friends, Associates
Mary Lamb
Friends were still being added to the Lambs' circle late in their lives, including literary friends like John Clare
and Thomas Hood
. Charles corresponded with Mary Shelley
; ML
corresponded with Mary Matilda Betham
Friends, Associates
Frances Wright
On her voyage back to Europe, FW
had as companion Robert Owen
's son, Robert Dale Owen
. During her stay in Europe, she made the acquaintance of Mary Shelley
(who became a friend and...
Friends, Associates
Frances Wright
Mary Shelley
was present at FW
's departure. Frances Trollope
was disappointed by the conditions of the colony and even more so by what she felt had been a misrepresentation of its advantages. Fearing for...
Friends, Associates
George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron
His final exit from England was made in the company of Hobhouse
, and on the shores of Lake Geneva he met up with Percy
and Mary Shelley
and Mary's step-sister Claire Clairmont
, with...
Friends, Associates
William Hazlitt
In 1817 he was sitting up until three in the morning with Percy
and Mary Shelley
discussing monarchy and republicanism.
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press.
163
Friends, Associates
Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC
's parents frequently entertained eminent literary figures in a drawing-room where the paintings were all executed by distinguished friends. At an early age she became acquainted with Charles
and Mary Lamb
, Leigh Hunt
Friends, Associates
Alice Meynell
Following her early conquest of Tennyson
, AM
went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan
, Aubrey Beardsley
(while he...
CN
found solace and political support in other friendships. Lawyer Abraham Hayward
and MP Thomas Noon Talfourd
became her allies in her attempts to change the law on custody of children, and gossip soon alleged...
Friends, Associates
Margiad Evans
A young poet whom she calls B—, a descendant of Percy Shelley
(and therefore presumably of Mary Shelley
too), whom she had known since his boyhood, moved from his own cottage to stay with ME
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mary...
Friends, Associates
Eliza Fenwick
On 23 July 1810, after a year which she said had taught [her] new griefs whose nature she does not explain, Fenwick wrote in anguish to Hays, who had stopped communicating with her. She knew...
