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Intro To Mary Shelley

Published on Dec 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

MARY SHELLEY

AND HER "HIDEOUS PROGENY"

MARY SHELLEY

1797-1851

1816

It was a dark and stormy summer...
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GHOST STORY CONTEST

Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley & Lord Byron
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MARY SHELLEY "WINS"

Story Published Under a Pseudonym in 1818

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED!

"Uncommon powers of poetic imagination"

MARY SHELLEY

Who was she?

MARY WOLSTONECRAFT GODWIN

Her Mother, an Early Feminist

MARY WOLSTONECRAFT GODWIN

Died at Mary Shelley's Birth

WILLIAM GODWIN

Father, Famous Reformer

POOR RELATIONSHIP

With Her Stepmother

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Scandalous Relationship!

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Died Young, Leaving Mary & Children Penniless

WORKING WOMAN

Published Many Novels
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LASTING LEGACY

Examining Perils of Progress