Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London,
England. She was destined to live an extraordinary life. Her parents were
two of the most noted freethinkers of the Enlightenment era. Her father,
William Godwin, was a celebrated philosopher and historian. He was known
for overeating and borrowing money who would give him a loan. He didn’t
have much time for anything but his philosophical ideas. He met his match
in Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary’s mother. She was every bit as much a radical
thinker as Godwin. She declared herself independent at the age of 21. She
and her sisters ran a school in France, where she had an affair with an army
captain and had her first child, Fanny, out of wedlock. After being
abandoned, she and Fanny moved back to England and attempted suicide.
She began writing. She was well-known for her revolutionary feminist
writings. Wollstonecraft and Godwin met a dinner party at Godwin’s home
and the two began an affair. Wollstonecraft was five months pregnant when
she married Godwin. Although Godwin and Wollstonecraft didn’t agree with
the whole marriage thing, they wanted Mary’s children to be legitimate
children. Mary’s mother died of complications just ten days after Mary was
born. Her father was a self-absorbed intellectual and was left to take care of
his daughters all alone. Although he loved his daughters, the responsibility of
raising them on his own was too much for him and soon began looking for a
wife.
Godwin married four years later to Mary Jane Clairmont. She turned
out to be a mean and shallow woman who favored her own two children over
Mary and Fanny. Mary was a lively child and was often treated unfairly by
her stepmother. She received frequent whippings which led to her rebellion
of a girl’s traditional role. As a result of this, Mary kept to herself and was
unhappy and alone. Although she didn’t have a formal education, she picked
up on the intellectual environment created by her father and his visitors.
Mary was quite bright and began reading the writings of her mother around
the age of eight. She had memorized every word by the age of ten. Mary
spent many hours at her favorite reading spot, her mother’s grave.
Percy Shelley, a poet, was an admirer and friend of William Godwin
and spent a great deal of time at the Godwin house. Shelley also admired the
writings of Mary’s mother.
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya shields herself against the confusion of St. Louis by reading fairy-tales and telling herself that she does not intend on staying there anyway. Vivian works in a gambling parlor at night. Maya pities Mr. Freeman because he spends his days at home waiting for Vivian to return. Maya begins sleeping at night with Vivian and Mr. Freeman because she suffers from nightmares. One morning after Vivian has left the bed and the house, Mr. Freeman sexually molests Maya. He does not rape her but rather masturbates on the bed while holding her close to him. Afterward, he threatens to kill Bailey if Maya ever tells anyone, but Maya, who does not understand what has happened and who actually enjoyed being held by someone, cannot understand what caused such a threat. For weeks, Mr. Freeman ignores her, and then molests her again. Again, he ignores her for weeks. Maya feels rejected and hurt, but she loses herself in other things, such as books. She wishes she were a boy because the heroes in all her favorite books and stories are male. Bailey welcomes the move to St. Louis and he makes friends, with whom he plays baseball. Maya, however, does not make any friends during this time. She and Bailey begin to grow apart, so she spends her Saturdays in the library reading fantastic adventures. ...
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At age 19, Shelley ran off to Scotland with the daughter of a coffee house owner, Harriet Westbrook. Soon after, during a trip to Ireland, he met the British philosopher William Godwin and his wife, a feminist writer, Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin and Shelley became good friends and this friendship became the influence for his first great works, Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem. Shelley fell in love with Godwin’s daughter, Mary Godwin, and the two eloped to Switzerland in 1814.
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"I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on" (SparkNote on Frankenstein). This famous quote said by Frankenstein, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which leaves a lasting impression on the reader was intended by Shelley. Literature was a major part of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's childhood and adulthood.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a memoir written by Maya Angelou. Published by Random House in 1969, this autobiography is 289 pages long. Maya Angelou’s first book focuses on her childhood growing up as a black women in the southern United States. The book starts off when Maya’s parents leave her and her brother Bailey with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. It then follows her through her teen years and end when Maya is sixteen years old and living in San Francisco with her mother. The novel tells of growing up from a young Maya’s point of view, where racial prejudice is a recurring theme.
deprived of what she enjoys doing for the sake of having a family. For someone who desperately attempts to oppose against female stereotypes, this only fuels her more. This can also give possible background to her illness later on.
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