FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Question
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He learned to read in Mrs. Einstein’s bookstore.
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learned to read on top of his mother’s grave
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he learned to read where his father worked
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he learned to read in his backyard
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Detailed explanation-1: -As a child, Mary was profoundly affected by her mother’s legacy, later writing in 1827: “The memory of my mother has always been the pride and delight of my life.” Mary’s father taught her to read by tracing the letters on Wollstonecraft’s gravestone, as mother and daughter shared the same first name.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Shelley’s mother was a famous writer, philosopher and champion of women’s rights. In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women, in which she said that women should receive the same education as men and should be treated equally.
Detailed explanation-4: -“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.