Körfez Atatürk Anatolian High School
Osmangazi Gazi Anatolian High School
Istituto "A. M. Gianelli" di Chiavari - Scuola paritaria
Lycée Camille Sée:
Mary Shelley was one of the best writers of her time and she is the creator of Frankenstein.
Born in 1797, she grows up without his mother who died ten days after her birth, so she taught herself between home classes, reading books at her mother's grave. At the age of 16, she was in a relationship with the poet Percy Shelley, she will lead a life of tragedy with him: she had 4 children with Percy but only of them survived, a boy named Percy Florence Shelley. When she was 18 years old, in 1815 “the year without a summer”, Mary had lived an experience that had changed his life. Mary Shelley was in a holiday with friends entertained themselves indoors by reading from a book of ghost stories. One of them (Lord Byron) offer a challenge who consist to write a horror story, Mary amazed them with her story, and it also published anonymously 2 years later in 1818.
Unfortunately, in 1822 her husband drowned. After that she will consecrate herself to her career as a writer and had her works and those of her husband published.
Mary Shelley died of her cancer in 1851 being a British woman of letters.
Barr Beacon School / UK
Mary Shelley was an English writer who wrote the famous Frankenstein novel. She was an early pioneer of science fiction and wrote one of the first examples of it. She also promoted the work of her husband a romantic poet. They both believed in the experiences of the mind and soul over thinking and science. Her parents were William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. They probably influenced Mary in many ways as her father was one of the first anarchists and her mother who was writer inspired her to write probably. Her father inspired to put strong political messages in her work and to be an activist. While her husband made her an advocate of the mind and soul.
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