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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lake Geneva in Switzerland.) Lake Geneva has long been a place of literary pilgrimage; this writer called it "blue as the heavens" when she lived here with her poet husband, who almost drowned one night on the lake & did drown in Italy a few years later |
Mary Shelley
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LITERARY POTPOURRI |
2016-05-10 |
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Albion House in the town of Marlow is the place where she finished writing "Frankenstein" |
Mary Shelley
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BACK TO LITERARY BRITAIN |
1998-10-01 |
#3234 |
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She dedicated "Frankenstein" to her father, William Godwin |
Mary Shelley
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LITERARY WOMEN |
1995-03-06 |
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Claire Clairmont, who had a child by Lord Byron, was this "Frankenstein" author's stepsister |
Mary Shelley
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LITERARY RELATIVES |
1993-09-08 |
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Her "History of a Six Weeks' Tour" recounts her travels with Percy after their elopement |
Mary Shelley
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LITERARY WOMEN |
1993-04-09 |
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Her father, William Godwin, was a prominent social philosopher & anarchist |
Mary Shelley
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LITERARY RELATIVES |
1990-09-07 |
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Her mother, feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft, died 11 days after her birth |
Mary Shelley
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LITERARY RELATIVES |
1990-01-24 |
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