FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Some traditions were maintained in modernity, despite the fact that the church lost great ideological influence in this period
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Industrialization and the accumulation of wealth in England produced gender equality.
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The macho culture disappeared in the development of the scientific revolutions
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The guardianship of women was a common practice, a legacy of medieval thought, for this reason the man had to bear his wife’s surname
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Shelley did not have a male pseudonym like George Eliot. So publishers dealt with her ungenerously, kept on cutting her advances, and paying her less. And yet she kept going. She had to keep going, because she didn’t have any other means of supporting herself.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is best known for her novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. Shelley was born on August 30th, 1797 in London. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, a famed feminist sadly died of puerperal fever 10 days after giving birth to her daughter.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1796 she began a liaison with Godwin, and on March 29, 1797, Mary being pregnant, they were married. The marriage was happy but brief; Mary died 11 days after the birth of her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who became a novelist best known as the author of Frankenstein.