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Essay: Lightning Strikes Twice - Revisiting the Shelleys 200 years after their masterpieces - by Erin Blakemore

Essay: Lightning Strikes Twice - Revisiting the Shelleys 200 years after their masterpieces - by Erin Blakemore | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Revisting the Shelleys 200 years after their masterpieces.
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Essay-Review: On the Loves of Mary Shelley - Her husband was openly hostile to her. After his death, she was intimate with several women. Her sexual orientation was clear, perhaps even to herself.

Essay-Review: On the Loves of Mary Shelley - Her husband was openly hostile to her. After his death, she was intimate with several women. Her sexual orientation was clear, perhaps even to herself. | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Fiona Sampson gives the ‘Frankenstein’ author’s hard life a compelling immediacy
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Classic Appreciation: On Mary Shelley and her remarkable novel, 'Frankenstein' - The mother of all science fiction horror fantasies

Classic Appreciation: On Mary Shelley and her remarkable novel, 'Frankenstein' - The mother of all science fiction horror fantasies | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ has spawned an enduring cult in literature, cinema, music and the arts. What explains the novel’s persistence in pop culture and why is it worth revisiting after two centuries?
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'Frankenstein' Reflects the Hopes and Fears of Every Scientific Era

'Frankenstein' Reflects the Hopes and Fears of Every Scientific Era | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The novel is usually considered a cautionary tale for science, but its cultural legacy is much more complicated.

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