FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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Keats and Blake
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Byron and Shelley
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Coleridge and Wordsworth
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Byron and Wordsworth
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Detailed explanation-1: -Literary influences. Shelley’s work was heavily influenced by that of her parents. Her father was famous for Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and her mother famous for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Her father’s novels also influenced her writing of Frankenstein.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lord Byron’s suggestion of a ghost story competition to while away their Swiss holiday not only inspired Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, but also Polidori’s short prose The Vampyre (1819) which later became a source of inspiration for Bram Stoker’s seminal work, Dracula (1897).
Detailed explanation-3: -However, Victor Frankenstein is likely more directly based on Mary Shelley’s husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary ran away with Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was a teenager, and they fled to Switzerland, where they stayed with Percy’s friend Lord Byron.
Detailed explanation-4: -Some aspects of the character are believed to have been inspired by 17th-century alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel.
Detailed explanation-5: -Why did Mary Shelley write Frankenstein? She wrote it as a response to a contest by Lord Byron and her husband to think of a horror story.