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1、MaryShelleyPortraitofMaryShelleyMaryShelley,theauthorofthelegendaryFrankenstein,wasnocommonplacenineteen-year-oldteenager.Inamatterofway,shewasaliterarynoviceinherownrespect,rightfromchildhood.Beingthedaughtertothethinker,novelistandpublisherWilliamGodwinandfeministMar
2、yWollstonecraft,shebaskedamongstliteraryeliterightfromherearlydays.Whilstgirlsofherageattendedtoballfrocksandhair-do’sshewasmoreoccupiedwithcontemporaryGothicnovels;ParadiseLostbyMilton,ParadiseRegained,Areopagetica,LycidasandComus.Ontheotherend,Shellydigestedtheworkso
3、fherpoet-husbandPryceShelley,Byron,Wordsworth,andColeridgeandwhilewritingdownthenotoriousFrankenstein,shewasgoingthroughGulliver’sTravelsbySwift.Tosomedegree,Frankensteinwasmoreofagirl’swonderthatowedtochildhoodfeastsondarkandpeculiarfantasies.HowwasFrankensteinBornOne
4、DarkStormyNightItstartedonestormynightattheresidenceofLordByronwhereagroupofcontemporaryliteratiwereassembled.MaryShellywasalsovisiting,accompaniedbyherfuturehusbandPercyShelley.Topassthestormydaysandnights,theydecidedtheywouldhaveacompetitiontoseewhocouldwritethebesth
5、orrorstory.Itwasonesuchnight,MaryShellysawhermonster’sfirstsilhouetteindream.Shelleydreamtaboutascientistwhocreatedlifeandwashorrifiedbywhatshehadmade.ThenFrankensteinwaswritten.PS:EllenMoerswasoneofthefirsttoclaimthatShelley'slossofababywasacrucialinfluenceonthewritin
6、gofFrankenstein.HowwasFrankensteinBornTheinfluenceofherparentsMaryShelley(1797-1851)wasdestinedtobecomeoneofthemostprominentfiguresinEnglishliterature.Bothherparentswererevolutionariesandwriters:HerfatherWilliamGodwin(1756-1836)wasanEnglishjournalistandnovelistandoneof
7、themajorproponentsofanarchistphilosophy.Mary'smotherMaryWollstonecraft(1759-1797),oneoftheearliestfeminists,wasequallyradical.InherbookAVindicationoftheRightsofWomenWollstonecaftarguesthattheinferiorroleofwomeninsocietywasnotnatural,butratheraconsequenceofmiseducation.
8、Shecalledforequalityofwomenandmen,thewomen'srighttoworkandpropereducationforgirls.Althoughshediedtendaysaftergivingbi
