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Mary Shelley

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ''Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818). [1]

211 relations: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Aaron Burr, Adonaïs, Age of Enlightenment, Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Allegra Byron, Anna Brownell Jameson, Anne K. Mellor, Annotation, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Aristocracy (class), Atheism, Aubrey Beauclerk (politician), Bagnacavallo, Bagni di Lucca, Bath, Somerset, Battle of Waterloo, Betty T. Bennett, Blasphemous libel, Bodleian Library, Boni & Liveright, Boscombe, Bourgeoisie, Bread Street, Bristol, British Library, Calais, Carbonari, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, Charles Kegan Paul, Charles Lamb, Chartism, Chester Square, Claire Clairmont, Cloudesley, Cologny, Constantinople, Court of Chancery, Cremation, Daniel Roberts (Royal Navy officer), Debtors' prison, Dionysius Lardner, Dissenter, Dundee, Dysentery, Edmund Burke, Edward Ellerker Williams, Edward John Trelawny, ..., Edward Moxon, Egalitarianism, Ellen Moers, Emily W. Sunstein, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Este, Veneto, Falkner (novel), Fanny Imlay, Fantasmagoriana, Feminist literary criticism, Florence, Francis Place, Frankenstein, Frankenstein (1910 film), Frankenstein (1931 film), Free love, French Revolution, Galvanism, Geneva, Genoa, Gift book, Gilbert Imlay, Gilding, Google Books, Gothic fiction, Governess, Gravesend, Harrow on the Hill, Harrow School, Henry Hetherington, Henry IV of France, History of a Six Weeks' Tour, Hundred Days, Huntington Library, Hyde Park, London, Independent school (United Kingdom), James Bieri, James Whale, Jane Williams, Janet Todd, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Howard Payne, John Milton, John William Polidori, Juvenilia, Kenneth Branagh, Kentish Town, Lake Geneva, Laudanum, Leigh Hunt, Lerici, Leslie S. Klinger, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Libertarianism, List of works in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men, Livorno, Lodore, Lord Byron, Lucerne, Lyric poetry, Maassluis, Malaria, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Mary Diana Dods, Mary Hays, Mary Poovey, Mary Shelley (film), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film), Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction, Mathilda (novella), Mel Brooks, Memoir, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Midas (Shelley play), Miranda Seymour, Miscarriage, MIT Press, Mont Blanc, Mont Blanc (poem), Motif (narrative), Mounseer Nongtongpaw, Mount Tambora, Muriel Spark, Naples, Napoleon, New York Public Library, Paradise Lost, Patriarchy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Florence Shelley, Pisa, Political philosophy, Postpartum infections, Primogeniture, Project Gutenberg, Prometheus, Proserpine (play), Prosper Mérimée, Protagonist, Psychoanalytic theory, Pygmalion (mythology), Queen Mab (poem), Radicalism (historical), Rambles in Germany and Italy, Ramsgate, Republicanism, Rhine, Richard Holmes (biographer), River Thames, Romantic poetry, Romanticism, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sandra Gilbert, Sensibility, Sentimentalism (literature), Shelley's Cottage, Short story, Smallpox, Somers Town, London, Sophia Stacey, St Pancras Old Church, St Peter's Church, Bournemouth, Strand, London, Sublime (philosophy), Susan Gubar, Susan J. Wolfson, Sussex, Swansea, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, The Last Man, The Liberal, The Madwoman in the Attic, The New York Review of Books, The Serpentine, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Thomas Love Peacock, Thomas Medwin, Torquay, Travel literature, Trinity College, Cambridge, Type–token distinction, Typhus, Utopia, Valperga (novel), Venice, Viareggio, Victorian era, Villa Diodati, Walter Scott, Washington Irving, William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Windsor Great Park, Year Without a Summer, Young Frankenstein. Expand index (161 more) »

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.

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Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician.

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Adonaïs

Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc., also spelled Adonaies, is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and most well-known works.

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Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason; in lit in Aufklärung, "Enlightenment", in L’Illuminismo, “Enlightenment” and in Spanish: La Ilustración, "Enlightenment") was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy".

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Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude

Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written from 10 September to 14 December in 1815 in Bishopsgate, London and first published in 1816.

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Alexandros Mavrokordatos

Alexandros Mavrokordatos (Αλέξανδρος Μαυροκορδάτος; February 11, 1791August 18, 1865) was a Greek statesman and member of the Mavrocordatos family of Phanariotes.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Allegra Byron

Clara Allegra Byron (12 January 1817 – 20 April 1822) was the illegitimate daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont.

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Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson (nee Murphy) (17 May 179417 March 1860) was the first English art historian.

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Anne K. Mellor

Anne Kostelanetz Mellor (born July 15, 1941) is a Distinguished Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies at UCLA; she specializes in Romantic literature, British cultural history, feminist theory, philosophy, art history and gender studies.

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Annotation

An annotation is a metadatum (e.g. a post, explanation, markup) attached to location or other data.

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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, science fantasy or horror in which the Earth's technological civilization is collapsing or has collapsed.

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Aristocracy (class)

The aristocracy is a social class that a particular society considers its highest order.

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Atheism

Atheism is, in the broadest sense, the absence of belief in the existence of deities.

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Aubrey Beauclerk (politician)

Aubrey William de Vere Beauclerk (20 February 1801 – 1 February 1854) was a British politician.

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Bagnacavallo

Bagnacavallo (Bagnacavàl) is a town and comune in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

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Bagni di Lucca

Bagni di Lucca (formerly Bagno a Corsena) is a comune of Tuscany, Italy, in the Province of Lucca with a population of about 6,500.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Betty T. Bennett

Betty T. Bennett (1935–2006) was Distinguished Professor of Literature and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1985–1997) at American University.

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Blasphemous libel

Blasphemous libel was originally an offence under the common law of England.

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Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe.

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Boni & Liveright

Boni & Liveright was an American trade book publisher established in 1917 in New York City by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright.

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Boscombe

Boscombe is a suburb of Bournemouth, England.

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Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie is a polysemous French term that can mean.

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Bread Street

Bread Street is one of the 25 wards of the City of London the name deriving from its principal street, which was anciently the City's bread market; for by the records it appears as that in 1302: "the bakers of London were ordered to sell no bread at their houses but in the open market at Bread Street".

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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Calais

Calais (Calés; Kales) is a city and major ferry port in northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

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Carbonari

The Carbonari (Italian for "charcoal makers") was an informal network of secret revolutionary societies active in Italy from about 1800 to 1831.

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle is one of the special collections housed within The New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman building.

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Charles Kegan Paul

Charles Kegan Paul (1828 – 19 July 1902) was an English publisher and author.

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Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

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Chartism

Chartism was a working-class movement for political reform in Britain that existed from 1838 to 1857.

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Chester Square

Chester Square is a small residential garden square located in London's Belgravia district.

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Claire Clairmont

Clara Mary Jane Clairmont (27 April 1798 – 19 March 1879), or Claire Clairmont as she was commonly known, was the stepsister of writer Mary Shelley and the mother of Lord Byron's daughter Allegra.

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Cloudesley

Cloudesley: A Tale (1830) is the fifth novel published by eighteenth-century philosopher and novelist William Godwin.

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Cologny

Cologny is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.

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Constantinople

Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis; Constantinopolis) was the capital city of the Roman/Byzantine Empire (330–1204 and 1261–1453), and also of the brief Latin (1204–1261), and the later Ottoman (1453–1923) empires.

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Court of Chancery

The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid the slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the common law.

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Cremation

Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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Daniel Roberts (Royal Navy officer)

Daniel Roberts (18 February 1789 – 18 February 1869) was an officer in the Royal Navy who made a series of cameo-like appearances in the lives of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Ellerker Williams, and Edward John Trelawny.

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Debtors' prison

A debtors' prison is a prison for people who are unable to pay debt.

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Dionysius Lardner

Prof Dionysius Lardner FRS FRSE (3 April 179329 April 1859) was an Irish scientific writer who popularised science and technology, and edited the 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopædia.

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Dissenter

A dissenter (from the Latin dissentire, "to disagree") is one who disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, etc.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dùn Dè) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom.

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Dysentery

Dysentery is an inflammatory disease of the intestine, especially of the colon, which always results in severe diarrhea and abdominal pains.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 17309 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.

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Edward Ellerker Williams

Edward Ellerker Williams (22 April 1793 – 8 July 1822) was a retired army officer who became a friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley in the final months of his life and died with him.

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Edward John Trelawny

Edward John Trelawny (13 November 1792 – 13 August 1881) was a biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron.

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Edward Moxon

Edward Moxon (12 December 1801 – 3 June 1858) was a British poet and publisher, significant in Victorian literature.

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Egalitarianism

Egalitarianism – or equalitarianism – is a school of thought that prioritizes equality for all people.

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Ellen Moers

Ellen Moers (1928–1978) was an American academic and literary scholar.

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Emily W. Sunstein

Emily Weisberg Sunstein (April 28, 1924 - April 21, 2007) was an American campaigner, political activist and biographer.

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Enquiry Concerning Political Justice

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness is a 1793 book by philosopher William Godwin, in which Godwin outlines his political philosophy.

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Este, Veneto

Este is a town and comune of the Province of Padua, in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

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Falkner (novel)

Falkner (1837) is the second to last novel published by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley.

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Fanny Imlay

Frances "Fanny" Imlay (14 May 1794 – 9 October 1816), also known as Fanny Godwin and Frances Wollstonecraft, was the daughter, born out of wedlock, of the British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the American commercial speculator and diplomat Gilbert Imlay.

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Fantasmagoriana

Fantasmagoriana is a French anthology of German ghost stories, translated anonymously by Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès and published in 1812.

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Feminist literary criticism

Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or more broadly, by the politics of feminism.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Francis Place

Francis Place (3 November 1771 in London – 1 January 1854 in London) was an English social reformer.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

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Frankenstein (1910 film)

Frankenstein is a 1910 film made by Edison Studios.

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Frankenstein (1931 film)

Frankenstein is a 1931 American pre-Code horror monster film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and adapted from the play by Peggy Webling (which in turn is based on the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley), about a scientist and his assistant who dig up corpses to build a man animated by electricity, but his assistant accidentally gives the creature an abnormal, murderer's brain.

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Free love

Free love is a social movement that accepts all forms of love.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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Galvanism

In biology, galvanism is the contraction of a muscle that is stimulated by an electric current.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna; English, historically, and Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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Gift book

Gift books, literary annuals or a keepsake were 19th-century books, often lavishly decorated, which collected essays, short fiction, and poetry.

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Gilbert Imlay

Gilbert Imlay (February 9, 1754 – November 20, 1828) was an American businessman, author, and diplomat.

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Gilding

Gilding is any decorative technique for applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance.

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Governess

A governess is a woman employed to teach and train children in a private household.

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Gravesend

Gravesend is an ancient town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the south bank of the Thames Estuary and opposite Tilbury in Essex.

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Harrow on the Hill

Harrow on the Hill is an area of north west London, England, and part of the London Borough of Harrow.

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Harrow School

Harrow School is an independent boarding school for boys in Harrow, London, England.

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Henry Hetherington

Henry Hetherington (17 June 1792 – 23 August 1849) was a leading British Chartist.

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Henry IV of France

Henry IV (Henri IV, read as Henri-Quatre; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithet Good King Henry, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610.

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History of a Six Weeks' Tour

History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni is a travel narrative by the English Romantic authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Hundred Days

The Hundred Days (les Cent-Jours) marked the period between Napoleon's return from exile on the island of Elba to Paris on20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 110 days).

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Huntington Library

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens (or The Huntington) is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927) and located in Los Angeles County in San Marino, California.

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Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is a Grade I-listed major park in Central London.

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Independent school (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, independent schools (also private schools) are fee-paying private schools, governed by an elected board of governors and independent of many of the regulations and conditions that apply to state-funded schools.

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James Bieri

James Bieri (born 1927) is a psychologist and biographer who introduced in 1955 the concept of cognitive complexity, derived from his doctoral study with George A. Kelly.

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James Whale

James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theater director and actor.

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Jane Williams

Jane Williams (née Jane Cleveland; 21 January 1798 – 8 November 1884) was a British woman best known for her association with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Janet Todd

Janet Margaret Todd (born 10 September 1942) is a British academic and author.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.

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John Howard Payne

John Howard Payne (June 9, 1791 – April 10, 1852) was an American actor, poet, playwright, and author who had most of his theatrical career and success in London.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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John William Polidori

John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was an English writer and physician.

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Juvenilia

Juvenilia are literary, musical or artistic works produced by an author during their youth.

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Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1959) is a British actor, director, producer, and screenwriter from Belfast in Northern Ireland.

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Kentish Town

Kentish Town is an area of northwest London, England in the London Borough of Camden, immediately north of Camden Town.

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Lake Geneva

Lake Geneva (le lac Léman or le Léman, sometimes le lac de Genève, Genfersee) is a lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France.

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Laudanum

Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine).

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Leigh Hunt

James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 178428 August 1859), best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist and poet.

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Lerici

Lerici is a town and comune in the province of La Spezia in Liguria (northern Italy), part of the Italian Riviera.

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Leslie S. Klinger

Leslie S. Klinger (born May 2, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American attorney and writer.

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Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-century British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Libertarianism

Libertarianism (from libertas, meaning "freedom") is a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle.

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List of works in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia

Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia was a book series of 133 volumes, edited by Dionysius Lardner.

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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.

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Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men

The Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men comprised ten volumes of Dionysius Lardner's 133-volume Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829–46).

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Livorno

Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy.

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Lodore

Lodore, also published under the title The Beautiful Widow, is the penultimate novel by Romantic novelist Mary Shelley, completed in 1833 and published in 1835.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.

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Lucerne

Lucerne (Luzern; Lucerne; Lucerna; Lucerna; Lucerne German: Lozärn) is a city in central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of the country.

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Lyric poetry

Lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.

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Maassluis

Maassluis is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease affecting humans and other animals caused by parasitic protozoans (a group of single-celled microorganisms) belonging to the Plasmodium type.

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Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).

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Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Marlow (historically Great Marlow or Chipping Marlow) is a town and civil parish within Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England.

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Mary Diana Dods

Mary Diana Dods (1790–1830), also known under her pseudonyms as David Lyndsay and Walter Sholto Douglas, was a Scottish writer of books, short stories and other works.

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Mary Hays

Mary Hays (1759–1843) was an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels, and several works on famous (and infamous) women.

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Mary Poovey

Mary Louise Poovey is an American cultural historian and literary critic whose work focuses on the Victorian Era.

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Mary Shelley (film)

Mary Shelley is a 2017 romantic period-drama film directed by Haifaa al-Mansour and written by Emma Jensen.

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a 1994 horror drama film directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Ian Holm, John Cleese, and Aidan Quinn.

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

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Mary: A Fiction

Mary: A Fiction is the only complete novel by 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Mathilda (novella)

Mathilda, or Matilda, is the second long work of fiction of Mary Shelley, written between August 1819 and February 1820 and first published posthumously in 1959.

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Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer.

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Memoir

A memoir (US: /ˈmemwɑːr/; from French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory or reminiscence) is a collection of memories that an individual writes about moments or events, both public or private, that took place in the subject's life.

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Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) is William Godwin's biography of his wife Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).

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Midas (Shelley play)

Midas is a verse drama in blank verse by the Romantic writers Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Miranda Seymour

Miranda Jane Seymour (born 8 August 1948) is an English literary critic, novelist, and biographer.

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Miscarriage

Miscarriage, also known as spontaneous abortion and pregnancy loss, is the natural death of an embryo or fetus before it is able to survive independently.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).

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Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco), meaning "White Mountain", is the highest mountain in the Alps and the highest in Europe west of Russia's Caucasus peaks.

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Mont Blanc (poem)

Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni is an ode by the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Motif (narrative)

In narrative, a motif is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story.

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Mounseer Nongtongpaw

Mounseer Nongtongpaw is an 1808 poem thought to have been written by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley as a child.

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Mount Tambora

Mount Tambora (or Tomboro) is an active stratovolcano on Sumbawa, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia.

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Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006).

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Naples

Naples (Napoli, Napule or; Neapolis; lit) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest municipality in Italy after Rome and Milan.

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Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674).

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Patriarchy

Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential.

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Percy Florence Shelley

Sir Percy Florence Shelley, 3rd Baronet of Castle Goring (12 November 1819 – 5 December 1889) was the son and only surviving child of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist and author of Frankenstein.

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Pisa

Pisa is a city in the Tuscany region of Central Italy straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.

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Political philosophy

Political philosophy, or political theory, is the study of topics such as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of laws by authority: what they are, why (or even if) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be legitimately overthrown, if ever.

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Postpartum infections

Postpartum infections, also known as childbed fever and puerperal fever, are any bacterial infections of the female reproductive tract following childbirth or miscarriage.

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Primogeniture

Primogeniture is the right, by law or custom, of the paternally acknowledged, firstborn son to inherit his parent's entire or main estate, in preference to daughters, elder illegitimate sons, younger sons and collateral relatives; in some cases the estate may instead be the inheritance of the firstborn child or occasionally the firstborn daughter.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

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Prometheus

In Greek mythology, Prometheus (Προμηθεύς,, meaning "forethought") is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure who is credited with the creation of man from clay, and who defies the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity, an act that enabled progress and civilization.

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Proserpine (play)

Proserpine is a verse drama written for children by the English Romantic writers Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée (28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was an important French writer in the school of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Psychoanalytic theory

Psychoanalytic theory is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology.

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Pygmalion (mythology)

Pygmalion (Πυγμαλίων, Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) is a legendary figure of Cyprus.

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Queen Mab (poem)

Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), the English Romantic poet.

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Radicalism (historical)

The term "Radical" (from the Latin radix meaning root) during the late 18th-century and early 19th-century identified proponents of democratic reform, in what subsequently became the parliamentary Radical Movement.

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Rambles in Germany and Italy

Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843 is a travel narrative by the British Romantic author Mary Shelley.

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Ramsgate

Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England.

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Republicanism

Republicanism is an ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized as a republic under which the people hold popular sovereignty.

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Rhine

--> The Rhine (Rhenus, Rein, Rhein, le Rhin,, Italiano: Reno, Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.

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Richard Holmes (biographer)

Richard Gordon Heath Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA (born 5 November 1945) is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Romantic poetry

Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

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Sandra Gilbert

Sandra M. Gilbert (born December 27, 1936), Professor Emerita of English at the University of California, Davis, is an American literary critic and poet who has published in the fields of feminist literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic criticism.

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Sensibility

Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another.

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Sentimentalism (literature)

Sentimentalism is a practice of being sentimental, and thus tending toward basing actions and reactions upon emotions and feelings, in preference to reason.

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Shelley's Cottage

Shelley's Cottage is a Grade II listed early 19th century large cottage in west Englefield Green, Surrey, England within 100 metres of Windsor Great Park marking the start of Berkshire.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Smallpox

Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by one of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor.

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Somers Town, London

Somers Town is a district in north west London.

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Sophia Stacey

Sophia Stacey (1791–1874) was a friend of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, to whom he dedicated the Ode which begins: Thou art fair, and few are fairer, Of the nymphs of earth or ocean, They are robes that fit the wearer - Those soft limbs of thine whose motion, Ever falls and shifts and glances As the life within them dances'.

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St Pancras Old Church

St Pancras Old Church is a Church of England parish church in Somers Town, Central London.

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St Peter's Church, Bournemouth

St Peter's Church is a Church of England parish church located in the heart of Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

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Strand, London

Strand (or the Strand) is a major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, Central London.

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Sublime (philosophy)

In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual, or artistic.

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Susan Gubar

Susan D. Gubar (born November 30, 1944) is an American author and distinguished Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University.

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Susan J. Wolfson

Susan J. Wolfson is Professor of English at Princeton University.

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Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck

The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance is an 1830 historical novel by Mary Shelley about the life of Perkin Warbeck.

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The Last Man

The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826.

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The Liberal

The Liberal was a London-based magazine "dedicated to promoting liberalism around the world", which ran in print from 2004 to 2009 and online until 2012.

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The Madwoman in the Attic

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination is a 1979 book by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, in which they examine Victorian literature from a feminist perspective.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The Serpentine

The Serpentine (also known as the Serpentine River) is a recreational lake in Hyde Park, London, England, created in 1730 at the behest of Queen Caroline.

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Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams

Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government.

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Thomas Jefferson Hogg

Thomas Jefferson Hogg (24 May 1792 – 27 August 1862) was a British barrister and writer best known for his friendship with the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company.

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Thomas Medwin

Thomas Medwin (1788–1869) was an early 19th-century English poet and translator.

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Torquay

Torquay is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay.

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Travel literature

The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Type–token distinction

The type–token distinction is used in disciplines such as logic, linguistics, metalogic, typography, and computer programming to clarify what words mean.

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Typhus

Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus and murine typhus.

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Utopia

A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens.

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Valperga (novel)

Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca is an 1823 historical novel by the Romantic novelist Mary Shelley, set amongst the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines (the latter of which she spelled "Ghibeline").

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Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Viareggio

Viareggio is a city and comune in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Villa Diodati

The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with John Polidori in the summer of 1816.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.

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William Godwin

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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Windsor Great Park

Windsor Great Park is a Royal Park of, including a deer park, to the south of the town of Windsor on the border of Berkshire and Surrey in England.

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Year Without a Summer

The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer (also the Poverty Year and Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death) because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F).

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Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr.

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References

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