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Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]

… Abstract Far from following the script of the lone Romantic genius, Percy Shelley (1792-1822) purposely cultivated numerous friendships with the most talented writers of his time. In his preface … Lord Byron. More recently, new scholarship has illuminated his collaborative and reciprocal literary relationship with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, his second wife. People > Art and Literature Keywords Percy Shelley Sociability Collaboration …

William Godwin (and his diary) [ Philosophy / Politics / Political & Moral philosophy / Feelings & Emotions / Diaries & Letters ]

… of philosophical anarchism and was also a major novelist, although he is perhaps better known today as the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and the father of Mary Shelley. He was the seventh child of thirteen in a family of a Dissenting minister in East Anglia. Against his parents’ …

Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis [ Aristocracy ]

… didactique outre-Manche (Bertaud 294). Original Stories from Real Life (1788), l’œuvre destinée à la jeunesse de Mary Wollstonecraft, porte quant à elle l’empreinte de la lecture d’ Adèle et Théodore et des Veillées du château . Dans son … lecteurs et surtout de lectrices : après Williams, Wollstonecraft, More, Burney, Smith ou Reeve, c’est au tour de Mary Shelley, Jane Austen et Susan Ferrier de s’enthousiasmer pour ce roman (Dow 47). Avant et pendant la Révolution, Genlis a …