... the key to the animation of life. The spark of life was quasi-electrical in nature. Mary became familiar with galvanisation both from the summer conversations at Villa Diodori with Byron and from her husband Percy's interest in this theme while at Oxford. A friend of his, Jefferson Hogg, describes Percy Shelley's early experiments with galvanism, which solidly makes the link between ... of Science Fiction. While containing elements of both, it moves beyond these genres and may be viewed as an argument against the Romanticism of her idealistic husband Percy and Lord Byron. Regardless of ...

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