... , an illness caused by childbirth or abortion in which linings of the reproductive track became infected. This sickness was very common due to the unsanitary methods of doctors causing many women of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to die after childbirth. According to Anne Mellor, William Godwin was extremely disheartened by his wife's death, whom he had married only five months prior so their ... , Lord Byron, succeeded in becoming his mistress. Claire, Percy, Mary, and baby William traveled to Genoa, Switzerland, to join Lord Byron. On June 22, 1816, at the age of 18, Mary had h...

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... develops a profound interest in the creation of life. His search leads him to become distant from his family and his health suffers. The extreme focus on his work can be seen through his own words: "The summer months passed while I was thus engaged, heart and soul, in one ... pursuit" (Shelley 33). Likewise his health deteriorates: "Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree" (Shelley 34). The main ... together result in complete opposite. A parallel can be drawn with isolation. Solitude can be seen as virtuous as one can explore ambitions...

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... the University, "From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation" (Frankenstein 48). By sending Victor to the University of Ingolstadt, Mary Shelley further signaled his association with the radical politics advocated by Percy Shelley. Ingolstadt was famous as the home of the Illuminati, a secret revolutionary society ... contemporary authors also had an influence on both the novel and the author. In Earl Wasserman's work, "Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: A Critical Reading," written in 1965, Wasserm...

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