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    Frankenstein In Love: The Marriage of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley
    Frankenstein In Love: The Marriage of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley
    Frankenstein In Love: The Marriage of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley
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    Frankenstein In Love: The Marriage of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley

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    She was the 17 year-old daughter of noted philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft; he was a 22-year-old trapped in an unhappy marriage. Their love was forbidden...that didn't matter. They inspired each other and became one of the most memorable literary couples of all time.

    For a short time in the late 1810s and early 1820s, they were the epicenter of an expatriate colony of artists inhabiting villas and sleepy coastal towns in Italy. In the way they pursued their love and lived their lives—independent even when united in matrimony—Percy and Mary were far ahead of their time.

    Read about their life and marriage in this book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookCaps
    Release dateMay 7, 2013
    ISBN9781301529513
    Frankenstein In Love: The Marriage of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley

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      Frankenstein In Love - LifeCaps

      LifeCaps Presents:

      Frankenstein In Love

      The Marriage of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley

      By Paul Brody

      By BookCaps Study Guides/Golgotha Press

      © 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.

      Published at SmashWords

      About LifeCaps

      LifeCaps is an imprint of BookCaps™ Study Guides. With each book, a lesser known or sometimes forgotten life is recapped. We publish a wide array of topics (from baseball and music to literature and philosophy), so check our growing catalogue regularly (www.bookcaps.com) to see our newest books.

      Introduction

      Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin were born during the Romantic Period in English literature, in the last decade of the 18th century. They were also both born to families of some distinction, with expectations of success placed on them by eager parents. Percy was an unorthodox and much-ridiculed person in his time, both for his political beliefs and his mode of living; Mary was less boldly radical, but she was certainly not conventional.

      Their unconventionality was a significant factor in driving them out of England. For a short time in the late 1810s and early 1820s, they were the epicenter of an expatriate colony of artists inhabiting villas and sleepy coastal towns in Italy. In the way they pursued their love and lived their lives—independent even when united in matrimony—Percy and Mary were far ahead of their time.

      Chapter 1: Early Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

      Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792 in Sussex, England. The son of aristocrats Timothy and Elizabeth Shelley and heir to a significant fortune, Percy spent his early years at the family manor, Field Place. He was the eldest of six children, with one brother and four sisters. As a child, Percy was tutored by the Reverend Evan Edwards, a well-meaning but not especially well-versed local. When not pursuing his studies, he did many of the ordinary things that young boys in the country usually do, such as hunting, fishing and exploring. His cousin, Thomas Medwin, lived in the neighborhood. Although their backgrounds were different and their lives took different courses, they crossed paths again much later in Italy. Years after Percy’s death, Medwin wrote about his youthful experiences with his cousin in The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

      Percy was in line to inherit not only his family’s estate, but also his grandfather’s seat in Parliament. In the early nineteenth century, Parliamentary seats were still handed down in families. However, Percy’s creative impulses and philosophical positions eventually put him at odds with his father, not to mention his father’s entire generation and social caste. Strangely, Sir Timothy Shelley was semi-literate and had little appreciation for arts and letters. His mother Elizabeth was equally unromantic, although she was known as an accomplished letter writer. In short, Percy was something of a prodigy—an intensely imaginative mind borne into an intellectually ordinary household.

      As a young boy in the country, Percy was expected to romp and

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