FIRST PAPER

Subject : # 14214 Narrativa Inglesa desde el S. XVIII Grupo C

Student´s name : Climent Carbó, Laura

Title of the paper : Biography & Books written by the author

Author or topic : Shelley, Mary

Abstract :

I’m going to focus my paper on the biography of Mary Shelley and also on books.

English novelist. She is best known for writing Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818) and for her marriage to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822).

Mary Shelley was born in London. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died ten days after giving birth to her. She was one of the first feminists and her father was the writer and political journalist William Godwin. In her childhood Mary Shelley was left to educate herself amongst her father's intellectual circle. In 1813, at the age of 16, she met Percy Bysshe Shelley, who came into Godwin's circle, and she ran away to France and Switzerland with him. They married in 1816. The story of Frankenstein started on summer in 1816 when Mary joined with Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont near Geneva. She took a challenge to write the most frightening ghost story and, with her husband's encouragement, she completed the novel within a year.

Auto-evaluation: I believe I deserve a 7 because I have been working hard. I have realized this work trying to do my best and I think I have realized it successfully.

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Laura Climent Carbó
laucli@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press