ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MARY SHELLEY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Choose the correct options: At what age did Mary leave home and with whom did she go to France and Switzerland after her decision?
A
At 17 years old.
B
At the age of 16.
C
He traveled with the poet Percy Shelley (his partner).
D
He traveled with Lord Byron (his partner).
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It is often considered an early example of science fiction. Shelley finished writing the first edition of Frankenstein when she was 19 years old.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1792 Wollstonecraft left England to observe the French Revolution in Paris, where she lived with an American, Captain Gilbert Imlay.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, London, in 1797.

Detailed explanation-4: -At the age of 16, Mary eloped to Italy with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who praised ‘the irresistible wildness & sublimity of her feelings’. Each encouraged the other’s writing, and they married in 1816 after the suicide of Shelley’s wife. They had several children, of whom only one survived.

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