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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London, and eloped early in life - at age 16 - with Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was in an unhappy marriage at the time. Their marriage was consecrated two years later, by which point Shelley had resigned herself to her husband's apparent fickleness when it came to other women. Her most famous novel, "Frankenstein," came out of a ghost-story writing contest - none of the other works written among her friends stood the test of time as well as this. After her husband died, she worked to publish and edit the material he left behind. She continued tirelessly in this endeavor until her death in 1851. Featured Book and QuizzesFeatured book by Mary Shelley: Frankenstein This week's quizzes: Sci-Fi First Lines H.G. Wells Biology This Week's BirthdaysWilliam Saroyan -- August 31, 1908 Optimistic American writer of the Depression era. Edgar Rice Burroughs -- September 1, 1875 Sci-fi writer and creator of Tarzan. Read more about Edgar Rice Burroughs Read Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs at BookDaily. Richard Wright -- September 4, 1908 American novelist most famous for the novel Native Son. Read Native Son by Richard Wright at BookDaily. | | |
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Mary Shelley
