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    Mary Shelley's parents were William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, both well-known philosophers and writers who were part of the Romantic and Enlightenment movements. [2] She was influenced by Romanticism and the Napoleonic Wars in her writing. [3] The great event of her early life was her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley, which had both positive aspects like love and companionship, as well as negative like social outcasting. [4] She wrote Frankenstein in 1816 near Geneva, Switzerland, where she, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori spent a summer together telling ghost stories, which inspired her to begin the novel

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    Mary Shelley's parents were William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, both well-known philosophers and writers who were part of the Romantic and Enlightenment movements. [2] She was influenced by Romanticism and the Napoleonic Wars in her writing. [3] The great event of her early life was her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley, which had both positive aspects like love and companionship, as well as negative like social outcasting. [4] She wrote Frankenstein in 1816 near Geneva, Switzerland, where she, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori spent a summer together telling ghost stories, which inspired her to begin the novel

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    Mary Shelley's parents were William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, both well-known philosophers and writers who were part of the Romantic and Enlightenment movements. [2] She was influenced by Romanticism and the Napoleonic Wars in her writing. [3] The great event of her early life was her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley, which had both positive aspects like love and companionship, as well as negative like social outcasting. [4] She wrote Frankenstein in 1816 near Geneva, Switzerland, where she, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori spent a summer together telling ghost stories, which inspired her to begin the novel

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    I.E.S.

    Mariana Pineda. Geography and History

    MARY SHELLEY: A BIOGRAPHY

    Keywords: background, atheist, feminist, progenitor, spark, vile, incest, elope, appeal, commune, lightning,
    thunder, echo, outcast, heretical, reputation, anonymously.

    Answer the following questions:

    1. Who were Mary Shelley’s parents? Why were they so extraordinary?

    2. What factors influenced her writing? Tick the correct answers:


    Romanticism Scientific Revolution
    Enlightenment Napoleonic Wars
    Industrial Revolution French Revolution

    3. What was the great event of her early life? Write a positive and a negative aspect of this
    relationship:

    4. Where did she write her novel Frankenstein? Why was this place so important?


    5. What is the “famous event” related to the writing of Frankenstein? Which writers took part in this
    “famous event”?

    6. What adjectives are used to describe the creature? Tick the correct answers:
    beautiful ugly innocent tragic
    aggressive pathetic destructive tender

    7. When was the novel published for the first time? How old was she? Why was it published
    anonymously?

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