Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851): English novelist. Child of famous author, philosopher, Mary Woolstonecraft, and political philosopher, William Godwin. Mary Shelley began a relationship with a then-married, Romantic Poet, Percy Shelley. They traveled together, and famously spent one summer in Switzerland with her husband, and poet, Lord Byron. It was during this time where Mary Shelley developed the idea for her most-famous work, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818).
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Class today:
1. Oedipus Rex myth- partner discussion.
2. Antigone and the Greek theater reading
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