who was mary shelley?
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She wrote Frankenstein.
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Emily Dickinson Biography:\n\n\nEmily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American lyrical poet, and an obsessively private writer -- only seven of her some 1800 poems were published during her lifetime. Dickinson withdrew from social contact at the age of 23 and devoted herself in secret into writing. \n\nDickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a family well known for educational and political activity. Her father, an orthodox Calvinist, was a lawyer and treasurer of Amherst College, and also served in Congress. She was educated at Amherst Academy (1834-47) and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (1847-48). Around 1850 Dickinson started to write poems, first in fairly conventional style, but after ten years of practice she began to give room for experiments. From c. 1858 she assembled many of her poems in packets of 'fascicles', which she bound herself with needle and thread. \n\nAfter the Civil War Dickinson restricted her contacts outside Amherst to exchange of letters, dressed only in white and saw few of the visitors who came to meet her. In fact, most of her time she spent in her room. Although she lived a secluded life, her letters reveal knowledge of the writings of John Keats, John Ruskin, and Sir Thomas Browne. Dickinson's emotional life remains mysterious, despite much speculation about a possible disappointed love affair. Two candidates have been presented: Reverend Charles Wadsworth, with whom she corresponded, and Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican, to whom she addressed many poems. \n\nAfter Dickinson's death in 1886, her sister Lavinia brought out her poems. She co-edited three volumes from 1891 to 1896. Despite its editorial imperfections, the first volume became popular. In the early decades of the twentieth century, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, the poet's niece, transcribed and published more poems, and in 1945 Bolts Of Melody essentially completed the task of bringing Dickinson's poems to the public. The publication of Thomas H. Johnson's 1955 edition of Emily Dickinson's poems finally gave readers a complete and accurate text. \n\nDickinson's works have had considerable influence on modern poetry. Her frequent use of dashes, sporadic capitalization of nouns, off-rhymes, broken metre, unconventional metaphors have contributed her reputation as one of the most innovative poets of 19th-century American literature. Later feminist critics have challenged the popular conception of the poet as a reclusive, eccentric figure, and underlined her intellectual and artistic sophistication\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs with men and women. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work.\n\n\n\nEarly life\nMillay was born in Rockland, Maine, to Cora Lounella (Buzzelle), a nurse, and Henry Tollman Millay, a schoolteacher who would later become superintendent of schools. Her middle name is derived from St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, where her uncle's life had been saved just prior to her birth.\n\nIn 1904, Cora officially divorced Millay's father for financial irresponsibility, but they had been separated for some years prior. Struggling financially, Cora and her three daughters, Edna (who would later insist on being called "Vincent"), Norma and Kathleen, moved from town to town, counting on the kindness of friends and relatives. Though poor, Cora never traveled without her trunk full of classic literature — including William Shakespeare, John Milton, and more — which she enthusiastically read to her children in her Irish brogue. Finally the family settled in Camden, Maine, moving into a small house on the property of Cora's well-heeled aunt. It was in this modest house in the middle of a field that Millay wrot
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Oh heck who is mary???
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Charles Babbage.\n\nRead the artical here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_babbage
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Mary Shelley subtitled her novel "The Modern Prometheus." According to the Greeks, Prometheus stole fire from the gods. As punishment, he was chained to a rock, where an eagle each day plucked at his liver. Prometheus sought fire for human betterment--to make tools and warm hearts. Similarly, Mary Shelley's arrogant scientist, Victor Frankenstein, claimed "benevolent intentions, and thirsted for the moment when I should put them in practice." Frankenstein endures not only because of its infamous horrors but for the richness of the ideas it asks us to confront--human accountability, social alienation, and the nature of life itself.
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Mary Henrietta Kingsley (October 13, 1862 - June 3, 1900) was an English writer and explorer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people.\n\nKingsley was born in Islington. She was the daughter of George Kingsley (himself a travel writer) and Mary Bailey, and the niece of Charles Kingsley. Her father was a doctor and worked for the 13th Earl of Pembroke. Her mother was an invalid and Mary was expected to stay at home and look after her. Mary had little formal schooling but she did have access to her father's large library and loved to hear her father's stories of foreign countries.\n\nHer father died in February 1892. Her mother also passed away just five weeks later. Freed from her family responsibilities, and with a income of £500 a year, Mary was now able to travel. Mary decided to visit Africa to collect the material she would need to finish off a book that her father had started on the culture of the people of Africa.
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Mary Kay, of Mary Kay cosmetics\nMartha Stewart\nCoco Chanel, with her invention of the famous perfume, CHANEL #5
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Typhoid Mary, i believe, but i could be wrong\n\nADD ON:\n\nYes, she was hospitalized:  http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/typhoid.htm
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Florence Nightingale, sort of the patron saint of the nursing profession, was known as "The Lady with the Lamp".\n\nHere is more information on Nightingale:\nhttp://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/flo2.htm
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In “The Cloud” Shelley's central preoccupation is less with the varying physical manifestations of clouds and more with the animating energy or spirit, which operates invisibly behind each shifting cloud-formation that it adopts. Shelley is intrigued by the cloud's delicately negotiated mode of being between corporeal and spiritual states.
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The monster in which you are in reference too isn't called Frankenstein...he is never named in the book written by Mary Shelly, he is merely the Monster or Dr. Frankenstein's Monster. \nAlso the Monster within Mary Shelly's book had the mind of a normal man, no real "abnormal" strength, and certainly no super-human abilities. What the book is actual in reference to is how far will humanity go in it's own inhumanity to become like gods; i.e. the creator/creatrix of life itself...\nBut in answer to your question, I would have to go with the Wolf-man...because according to Oriental tradition (which is where we get werewolves and such) they are super-entities powered by the realms of the dead feeding on the damned.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/victorian_britainlj/index.shtml
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Hell yeah.....Dr D Frankenstein died over a century ago!!!
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To T_Von... Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. A teenage girl.\n\nAnyway, Frankenstein is meant to be a cautionary story. It was written at the height of the Industrial Revolution, when people were getting replaced with machines, and new technologies came out every week. People were terrified of all these new things that suddenly appeared, working on principles they didn't understand. Yes, I think this has some parallels to our current situation... At one point during the 90s, your computer became outdated seven minutes after you bought it. \n\nWe do sort of blindly rush in with technological innovations these days, just as we did during the Industrial Revolution when Frankenstein was written. After all, we don't even know how most of our technology works. As for the monster representing caution against overstepping the bounds of nature...I might agree with that. But not as a reflection of technology. After all, patching together dead people and bringing them to life is still a bit beyond us... I think the point is that we should carefully consider all the new technologies we create, and their impacts on the world.
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Actually, Frankenstein created the monster.
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Your question made me curious, this is what I found:\nhttp://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Dell/9880/famous.html\nMost of the people on this list are writers, science fiction and such...Alice Walker surprised me by being on this list.
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I am not sure if the information is in there, but you should check out the link, a sort of books database on the internet. However, if you would like a detailed answer you probably should become a member first (Free) and then ask your question again in the forums.\n\nBut you can search first for James Joyce, then from the results you get you click on the name of the author. Under the author you click "Eveline" But there is no review yet.\nSo again, I advise to become a meber and check out the forums