ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MARY SHELLEY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first residence of the Shelley couple was ____
A
Saint Pancras
B
Bloomsbury
C
York
D
Ginebra
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mary Shelley created the story on a rainy afternoon in 1816 in Geneva, where she was staying with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, their friend Lord Byron and Lord Byron’s physician, John Polidori. The group, trapped indoors by the inclement weather, passed the time telling and writing ghost stories.

Detailed explanation-2: -Within two weeks, Percy and Mary were married in St. Mildred’s Church in London on December 30, 1816. Early the next year, the couple moved to Marlow, England and a third child, Clara Everina, was born. In 1818, the Shelley’s left England for Italy to escape mounting debt and to improve Percy’s health.

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

Detailed explanation-4: -Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), the English Romantic poet.

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