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** Wollenstonecraft is considered the "first feminist" | ** Wollenstonecraft is considered the "first feminist" | ||
* her father, <nowiki>'''William Godwin'''</nowiki>, was a famous political philosopher and novelist | * her father, <nowiki>'''William Godwin'''</nowiki>, was a famous political philosopher and novelist | ||
** Godwin was considered a political radical for his attacks on | ** Godwin was considered a political radical for his attacks on institutions, "aristocratic privilege", and religion | ||
*** he argued | |||
** he was an early promoter of "utilitarianism," a philosophy that sought to create the "greatest good" or "happiness" for the "greatest number of people" | ** he was an early promoter of "utilitarianism," a philosophy that sought to create the "greatest good" or "happiness" for the "greatest number of people" | ||
** Godwin wrote a novel that drew from John Milton's "Paradise Lost" | ** Godwin wrote a novel that drew from John Milton's "Paradise Lost" | ||
*** Mary Shelley also drew inspiration from <nowiki>''Paradise Lost''</nowiki> | *** Mary Shelley also drew inspiration from <nowiki>''Paradise Lost''</nowiki> | ||
* Shelley had an affair with the poet Percy Shelley, who was married, and married him in 1816 | |||
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== Writing of Frankenstein == | |||
* it was on a trip to Switzerland in 1816 w/ Shelley, the poet Lord Byron, and William Polidor that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein | |||
=== The Summer with no Sun === | |||
* Mary wrote of her time in Switzerland, | |||
"It proved a wet, ungenial summer, and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house" | |||
=== Galvanism === | |||
* Benjamin Franklin's discoveries in the mid-1700s of the nature of lightning as electricity spurred research into electricity | |||
* in the late 1700s, Luigi Galvani realized that muscle tissue reacted to electricity | |||
** his assistant accidently touched a dead frog's leg with a charged scalpel, which made its leg move | |||
* the study or practice of generating electricity with chemicals was called "Galvanism" | |||
** became a cultural meme | |||
[[Category:British Literature]] | [[Category:British Literature]] | ||