Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley acquired her last name through marriage to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a British Romantic poet, whose politics were as radical as his poetry. This is a view from the
Keats-Shelley House in Rome, a lovely museum built in the apartment where Shelley's friend John Keats died.
The Keats-Shelley House is featuring
a major exhibit on the women of the Romantic movement, especially Mary Shelley.
Keats died of tuberculosis. His friend and roommate Joseph Severn drew this portrait of him on his deathbed.
Tobin- how much of Percy Shelly’s ideas were reflected in Mary’s novel Frankenstein? I recently read The Vidication of the Natural Diet, which Shelly wrote in 1813 to illustrate his strong belief in a vegetarian diet. I noticed that Frankenstein’s monster states that his diet consists mostly of acorns and berries, which I am not sure is simply out of necessity or if Mary wanted to imply that vegetarianism is the humane path to take. I am still curious as to whether or not the rest of the novel will contemplate the idea of rights which are inherent to all living things, which is also reflected in Percy Shelly’s poetic works.
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