Frankenstein
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In the distance against the sky, they could make out the towers of a picturesque castle named Frankenstein.
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A notorious alchemist named Konrad Dippel had been born there in 1673.
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Twice as many people died as were born.
In the distance against the sky, they could make out the towers of a picturesque castle named Frankenstein.
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Note | Page: 109
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A notorious alchemist named Konrad Dippel had been born there in 1673.
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Twice as many people died as were born.
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
She frequently referred to the book as her “offspring” or “progeny.”
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Charlotte Gordon
In the early nineteenth century, women artists were by definition monstrous.
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
Mary, what mattered most was precisely what Shelley had skipped over: the feelings of the victim, the woman’s inner life—the themes her mother had focused on in her books.
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Charlotte Gordon
And we are plagued by dead language and dead stories that serve people whose aim is nothing short of a dead world.
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
But as a little girl, she experienced this viscerally, felt firsthand how creations can control their creators.
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon
when men are guided by ambition, not love, and by fame, not family, then women and children pay the price.
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Charlotte Gordon
Fathers, though, seemed able to reject their children without even a backward glance. Or so it seemed to Mary in the fall of 1816 as day after day, Godwin maintained his flinty silence. She poured her sorrow and outrage into her novel by spelling out the consequences of Frankenstein’s rejection of his son. Like Mary, the creature has only a father,... See more
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“Dream that my little baby came to life again—that it had only been cold & that we rubbed it by the fire & it lived—I awake & find no baby—I think about the little thing all day.”
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon