Today in Labor History March 29, 1797: William Godwin married Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin was an English journalist, philosopher and novelist. And one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. His most famous books are “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice” and “Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams,” a mystery novel that attacks aristocratic privilege. Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, and is regarded by many as one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her most famous book was “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792). She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
Today in Labor History March 25, 1811: Oxford University expelled Percy Bysshe Shelley for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. Shelley was an English Romantic poet, radical in both his art and his politics. His poem "The Mask of Anarchy," which he wrote in 1819 after the Peterloo Massacre, is one of the first modern descriptions of nonviolent resistance. His admirers included Karl Marx, Gandhi and George Bernard Shaw. He was married to Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein.”
In March 2024, I will be offering the module "Meet The Last Man" with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity.
#MaryShelley's novel #TheLastMan is one of the most relevant books we can read right now, and I'm really looking forward to exploring it with students!
I'm delighted to be joining SPACE (Signum Adult Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online with #SignumUniversity. My upcoming modules in early 2024 include The Haunting of Hill House by #ShirleyJackson, A Haunting on the Hill by #ElizabethHand, and The Last Man by #MaryShelley. I hope to see you in SPACE!
"I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! ... His hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his shriveled complexion."
It’s Mary Shelley’s birthday! That makes it #FrankensteinDay – and if you’d like to learn more about how the famous novel got written, as well as some history of other classic monsters, we’ve got a video for you!
Happy birthday to science fiction and horror writer and original badass goth girl MARY SHELLEY, born OTD in 1797.
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” — Mary Shelley, introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein.
Today in History August 30, 1797: Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright was born. She is most famous for her novel, “Frankenstein.” However, she wrote several other novels, including the historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel The Last Man (1826). She married the romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelly. Her father was the early anarchist philosopher, William Godwin. And her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a writer and a feminist activist. Mary Shelley was a political radical throughout her life, influenced by the anarchism of her father.
my creativity's been reignited by the short graphic design course i took this week at glasgow school of art - so much so that i needed to quickly get this idea realised. it's an alternative cover for my favourite novel, mary shelley's 'frankenstein'. #illustration#bookstodon#literature#frankenstein#art#maryShelley#glasgow#gsoa
#OnThisDay, May 14, 1816, Mary Godwin and her future husband Percy Shelley, her stepsister Claire Clairmont, and Dr. John William Polidori visit Lord Byron at Villa Deodati on Lake Geneva in Switzerland (depicted in Gothic, 1986)