Happy birthday, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley!

[eldritchhobbit]

Happy birthday to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August, 1797 – 1 February, 1851)!



“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)

Comments

[acciochocolate.livejournal.com]

An amazing lady and one of those who help to start sf! There's a duo bio of her and her mother that was published last year--I'd like to read it.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

That bio is so good! I totally recommend it.

And three cheers for the Marys!

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Yes, to the mother of the science fiction novel, a very Happy Birthday!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[ace hamilton (from livejournal.com)]

A little known fact about her is that she traveled for a time with the Time Lord known as The Doctor:

http://goldentalesgeek.blogspot.com/2012/03/eighth-doctor-and-mary-shelley-winning.html