Mary Shelley uses nature as a calming and restorative influence in Victor Frankenstein’s life. Nature is a therapeutic remedy that he seeks out when he needs escape and regeneration, and while his family brings him comfort, it is nature that is the ultimate restoring agent.

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The death of William caused Mary to suffer a nervous breakdown.

Thus, they married on December 30, 1816, and Mary gave birth to a baby girl Clara on September 2, 1817 (103, 112). Unfortunately, baby Clara became ill and died on September 26th, 1818, just after she turned one year old (123-5).

Instead of burying it with the rest of his remains in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, Mary kept the heart in a silken shroud, and is said to have carried it with her nearly everywhere for years. In 1852, a year after she died, Percy’s heart was found in her desk.

While she didn’t have a formal education, she did make great use of her father’s extensive library. Shelley could often be found reading, sometimes by her mother’s grave. She also liked to daydream, escaping from her often challenging home life into her imagination. Shelley also found a creative outlet in writing.

It was on March 25th in 1811, exactly 200 years ago, that 18-year-old Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford University because he refused to deny authorship of a pamphlet called The Necessity of Atheism.

Shelley drowned in his own sailing boat, the Don Juan, while returning from Livorno to Lerici, in the late afternoon of July 8 1822, during a violent summer storm. He was a month short of his 30th birthday.

The major theme behind “Ozymandias” is that all power is temporary, no matter how prideful or tyrannical a ruler is. Ramesses II was one of the ancient world’s most powerful rulers.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was an English Romantic poet who rebelled against conservative politics and values. As a poet, Shelley conceived to become the inspirer and judge of men. He had a passion for reforming the world which was the direct outcome of that attitude of mind which the French Revolution had inculcated in him.

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36 years (1788–1824)

Seeking to escape his love affairs in marriage, Byron proposed in September 1814 to Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke. The marriage took place in January 1815, and Lady Byron gave birth to a daughter, Augusta Ada, in December 1815.

After a long relationship with his half-sister (leading to one child), he had affairs with actresses, married society women and many young men, so that by the age of 21, he had raging cases of gonorrhoea and syphilis. Love didn’t come in a triangle for Byron but something closer to a pentacle.

Byron was born with a deformed right foot and lower leg, which was often called a ‘club foot’ at the time and since, but more recently, based on a study of the special boots made for him, it is thought that it was rather a dysplasia or failure of the limb to form properly, giving him a ‘grotesquely thin calf and a …

Facing mounting pressure as a result of his failed marriage, scandalous affairs and huge debts, Byron left England in April 1816 and never returned. He spent the summer of 1816 at Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary and Mary’s half sister Claire Clairmont, with whom Byron had a daughter.

Robert Byron

He was raised in Aberdeen, Scotland, by his mother after his father fled the family and died in 1791 in France. Byron inherited his title at the age of 10, though he later adopted his mother-in-law’s family name, Noel, in order to inherit half of her estate. Byron’s mother was prone to mood swings and heavy drinking.

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Lady Byronm. 1815–1816

Lord Byron