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1 day ago · Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818. The famous Gothic horror tale depicts the creation of a sapient creature by young scientist Victor Frankenstein. The themes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein include human nature, ambition and the consequences of unchecked knowledge. It challenges the reader to consider isolation, prejudice and the ethics ...
1 day ago · Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage 's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1 day ago · Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as important influences. During her brief career she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book.
5 days ago · Unlike most novels written by women, Frankenstein contains no strong, female heroines. Male scholars find feminist readings of Frankenstein to be particularly suspect for this reason. But literary scholar Kate Ellis claims that’s the point.
6 days ago · Fiona Sampson, author of 'In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein', looks at the intellectual and social background of the novel. 'Frankenstein' Reflects the Hopes and Fears of Every Scientific Era.
- Daniel O'Connell
- 2018
6 days ago · Jean Jacques Rousseau: Emile, or Education (1762) On the education of children from self-absorbed infants to beings capable of sympathy with others. Rousseau also advocated that female education should be similar to that of males. John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Part I (1689)
6 days ago · Lord Byron (1788-1824) An Address to the Right Hon. Lord Byron, with an Opinion on Some of his Writings (1817) This poem by F.H.B. accuses Byron of perverting his gift of poetry by adopting a stance separate from that of humanity. British Library: Lord Byron, 19th-century Bad Boy.
