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works on the life of mary wollstonecraft or mary shelley and her extended circle?
i admit i did not know much about mary wollstonecraft before today. just now i was reading janet todd's book on jane austen and there was a short section about wollstonecraft which surprised me. i did a little more reading up and i'm honestly amazed at just how interesting the lives of many people in these women's circle were!
first, i did not know about wollstonecraft's daughter fanny (a product of an affair with an american before her marriage to william godwin). i searched fanny up on wikipedia only to find out she commited suicide at 22! also, after wollstonecraft's death, godwin remarried and his new wife's kids moved in with fanny and mary shelley. on of those kids was claire clairmont who latter had a child by lord byron!! and fanny was supposedly in love with percy shelley too and wrecked by him going to europe with mary and claire! and mary wollstonecraft was at some point actively pursuing the married henry fuseli (the artist of the famous painting "the nightmare")!! and sooo much more. this is all so interesting to me, i love these pieces of literary history. if anyone knows of any quality media of any kind discussing these people i would reaaally love to hear it! thanks everyone :)
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i admit i did not know much about mary wollstonecraft before today. just now i was reading janet todd's book on jane austen and there was a short section about wollstonecraft which surprised me. i did a little more reading up and i'm honestly amazed at just how interesting the lives of many people in these women's circle were!
first, i did not know about wollstonecraft's daughter fanny (a product of an affair with an american before her marriage to william godwin). i searched fanny up on wikipedia only to find out she commited suicide at 22! also, after wollstonecraft's death, godwin remarried and his new wife's kids moved in with fanny and mary shelley. on of those kids was claire clairmont who latter had a child by lord byron!! and fanny was supposedly in love with percy shelley too and wrecked by him going to europe with mary and claire! and mary wollstonecraft was at some point actively pursuing the married henry fuseli (the artist of the famous painting "the nightmare")!! and sooo much more. this is all so interesting to me, i love these pieces of literary history. if anyone knows of any quality media of any kind discussing these people i would reaaally love to hear it! thanks everyone :)
#entertainment
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