Wednesday
My Quotes
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
"The beginning is always today."
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."
". . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."
"Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude."
"My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine."
" My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. "
"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil."
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
"The beginning is always today."
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."
". . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."
"Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude."
"My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine."
" My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. "
"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil."
List of My Works
novels:
poems:
- Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus
- Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
- The Last Man
- The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, A Romance
- Lodore
- etc.
poems:
- "Absence; 'Ah! he is gone—and I alone!—'"
- "A Dirge; 'This morn, thy gallant bark, love'"
- "A Night Scene; 'I see thee not, my gentlest Isabel'"
- "Song; 'When I'm no more, this harp that rings'"
- "The Death of Love"
- etc.
Timeline of My Events
1797 mother dies giving birth
08/30/1797 Mary is born in Somers Town, Great Britain, to well-known parents: author and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and philosopher William Godwin.
1807 She published her first poem at the age of ten
Approx 1813 When Mary is sixteen she meets the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a devotee of her father`s teachings
1816 they go abroad again, this time spending time with Byron and his friend Polidori in Geneva
1816 William was born.
Approx 1816 in Geneva, Byron suggests that they should all write a ghost story. Mary writes Frankenstein, the only story of the four that was ever to be published as a novel.
1816 Percy`s wife drowns herself: Percy and Mary marry in December
1817 History Of Six Weeks` Tour the Shelleys jointly recorded their life
1818 Frankenstein
1818 the Shelleys left England for Italy
1819 Mary suffered a nervous breakdown after the death of William
1819 Birth of Percy Florence Shelly; only child of Mary`s to survive childhood
1819 begins work on Mathilde which draws on her relations with Godwin and Percy Shelley. this work is not published until long after her death (1959)
1822 Percy drowns during a sailing trip in the Bay of Spezia near Livorno
1822 she has a dangerous miscarriage
1823 she returned with her son to England, determined not to-re-marry
1823 Valperga, which is a romance set in the 14th-century
1826 The Last Man, depicts the end of human civilization, set in the 21st century.
08/30/1797 Mary is born in Somers Town, Great Britain, to well-known parents: author and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and philosopher William Godwin.
1807 She published her first poem at the age of ten
Approx 1813 When Mary is sixteen she meets the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a devotee of her father`s teachings
1816 they go abroad again, this time spending time with Byron and his friend Polidori in Geneva
1816 William was born.
Approx 1816 in Geneva, Byron suggests that they should all write a ghost story. Mary writes Frankenstein, the only story of the four that was ever to be published as a novel.
1816 Percy`s wife drowns herself: Percy and Mary marry in December
1817 History Of Six Weeks` Tour the Shelleys jointly recorded their life
1818 Frankenstein
1818 the Shelleys left England for Italy
1819 Mary suffered a nervous breakdown after the death of William
1819 Birth of Percy Florence Shelly; only child of Mary`s to survive childhood
1819 begins work on Mathilde which draws on her relations with Godwin and Percy Shelley. this work is not published until long after her death (1959)
1822 Percy drowns during a sailing trip in the Bay of Spezia near Livorno
1822 she has a dangerous miscarriage
1823 she returned with her son to England, determined not to-re-marry
1823 Valperga, which is a romance set in the 14th-century
1826 The Last Man, depicts the end of human civilization, set in the 21st century.
My World
Why hello there, I am Mary Shelley, and many people know me as the renowned novelist, short- story writer, dramatist, biographer, essayist, and travel writer. I live during the Romantic period in which "a culture in an age of reaction and revolution" occured. Also, that was when Gothic literature appeared and attracted the "bizzare and unusual". Furthermore, I was born on August 30, 1797 in Somers Town, London from a prominent mother who was a philosopher and feminist named Mary Wollstonecraft, and a father who was a political philosopher named William Godwin. My mother sadly died after the eleventh day of my birth. I had to leave with my older, half-sister, Fanny Imlay, to live with my father, and there he married our neighbor. Around the year 1814, I fell in love with my father’s political follower, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and we eventually got married. Meanwhile, we moved to Geneva to live with some close relations, and Geneva was where I got my idea for my famous publication, Frankenstein. When I was a child, my father would used to take me out occasionally to educational outings, and he was the one to teach me a broad range of subjects. When he found out about my relationship with Percy, he was not quite fond of it, and Percy and I had to leave eventually to go on with our own lives. We had four children but only the last child survived... what sad luck did we have. We were considered exiles along with Lord Byron, and we went to live in Italy. Also, I had to help hide the fact that my step-sister, Claire Claremont, was pregnant and eventually gave birth to the child. My beloved Percy ended up leaving me due to a sudden tragic death.
Later on in my life, I had to survive by writing and help bringing up my lovely son, Percy Florence, and eventually, my attachment with Percy was very close that he came to live with me after going to university. The difficulties I had to go through were tremendous. I would get allowance from my husband’s father, but he did not encourage me in what I was doing with his son’s writings. The bond between me and Percy Shelley’s father was indeed a bit tense. It is obvious that his father never approved of our marriage. Moreover, after that sorrowful death of my husband, Percy Shelley, I ended up looking for some new relationships, but none really turned out well. I just kept writing for the rest of my life. My novels included elements of novelistic genres. Many of them consisted of the topics on gender, politics, Enlightenment, and Romanticism. Others were short stories from real life experiences, travelogues, biographies, and editorial writings from Percy Bysshe’s well-thought out works. The down side was that I was not taken seriously as a writer. Then, in the mid-1840s, several blackmailers appeared to me threatening me of my personal information. This shows how much I had to handle, taking in the fact that I was becoming somewhat ill. Overall, I am a woman who was treated like no other and was not admired until it came to the actual realizations of my astounding writing talents.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
http://www.shmoop.com/mary-shelley/timeline.html
Western Civilization- Spielvogel Sixth Edition
Loving that Special Someone
My Beloved
Around 1814 to the current year 1826 is when I finally establish a life with my true love. Percy Bysshe Shelley is an admirer of my father, Godwin, and Percy often visits him. He comes to see my father because he promised Godwin that he would help pay for Godwin’s debts but eventually failed in doing so. Also, it is said that Percy was married a couple years ago with a woman named Harriet but has recently become estranged from her.
The St. Pancras Churchyard
Moreover, regarding to my relationship with Percy, we secretly meet at my mother’s grave in St. Pancras Churchyard and eventually fell in love. Sadly, however, both of our parents disapprove of our love for each other. I believe that “ties of the heart are more important that legal ones”. My father, Godwin, tried to recover the “spotless frame” of my image. The fact that Percy cannot assist my father in paying his debts just made the situation worse. Likewise, after our decision to leave to go to France, Percy’s father decided to end Percy’s great amount of allowance after we furtively ran away together. We take my step-sister, Claire Clairmont, with us on our journey to the unknown. However, Percy chooses to leave his wife behind and later caused the suicidal death of Harriet. Nonetheless, in my opinion, our adventure seem to turn out “being an incarnate romance”. I deeply hope that our passionate marriage will end up successful; anyhow, I soon discover that Percy has been having affairs with other women. This shows that are love is somewhat tearing apart. Despite our failures in producing children who survive, I am wishing the best of luck for me and Percy to live the rest of our lives to the fullest.
Sources: http://www.notablebiographies.com/Sc-St/Shelley-Mary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/biography/p000047.htm
Moreover, regarding to my relationship with Percy, we secretly meet at my mother’s grave in St. Pancras Churchyard and eventually fell in love. Sadly, however, both of our parents disapprove of our love for each other. I believe that “ties of the heart are more important that legal ones”. My father, Godwin, tried to recover the “spotless frame” of my image. The fact that Percy cannot assist my father in paying his debts just made the situation worse. Likewise, after our decision to leave to go to France, Percy’s father decided to end Percy’s great amount of allowance after we furtively ran away together. We take my step-sister, Claire Clairmont, with us on our journey to the unknown. However, Percy chooses to leave his wife behind and later caused the suicidal death of Harriet. Nonetheless, in my opinion, our adventure seem to turn out “being an incarnate romance”. I deeply hope that our passionate marriage will end up successful; anyhow, I soon discover that Percy has been having affairs with other women. This shows that are love is somewhat tearing apart. Despite our failures in producing children who survive, I am wishing the best of luck for me and Percy to live the rest of our lives to the fullest.
Sources: http://www.notablebiographies.com/Sc-St/Shelley-Mary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/biography/p000047.htm
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