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#FreeTalk this Saturday! On May 3 from 2-2:30pm Eastern, I'll be giving a #free online talk on #TheLastMan by #MaryShelley. If you register, you'll also have access to the recording afterward. This talk is part of the SPACE Showcase and previews my month-long "Meet The Last Man" module with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity, which is scheduled for June 2025.

Everyone is invited!

Teaser: https://youtu.be/tzV-5T-td38?si=19zzTmQW-W6_w7mG

Info on the May 3 talk: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/events/2025-spring-space-showcase/

#ScienceFiction #Dystopia #EcoGothic #Gothic #SFF #PlagueLit #Books #Bookstodon #OnlineEvent

Pictured is the title page of the Norton Critical Edition of Mary Shelley's The Last Man. This black-and-white photo shows the book open against a backdrop of vintage wallpaper.

El 27 de abril de 1759 #MaryWollstonecraft nace. Precursora del #feminismo en su obra (‘Vindicación de los derechos de la mujer’) y su vida, escritora y filósofa, madre de #MaryShelley. En mi blog #Cúmulosylimbos he escrito varias veces sobre ella cumulosylimbos.blogspot.com/2014/06/mary...

Reading #MaryShelley's #Frankenstein, is:

“Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connection?”

#Porn?

'shelley may not be a contemporary embodiment of a feminist, but'...

#percyByssheShelley #maryWollstonecraft #maryShelley #feminism #literature #art #graphic

document with a digital pencil & ink illustration of poet, percy bysshe shelley, that discusses examples of his progressive views on women's rights.
the text reads: as a writer during the romantic period, shelley stood out because of his alignment with
some feminist ideals of his time, especially the breaking the binary of gender roles & expectations. shelley may not be a contemporary embodiment of a feminist, but I see him as possessing some feminist values & pushing towards feminist ideals.

shelley respected his wife as an author & as an individual. shelley’s use of female characters in his works also shows that he is in support of women being main characters & being strong roles in his works. some of shelley’s thoughts regarding women resonate with those of the late mary wollstonecraft as she believes that ‘if women are to be excluded, without having a voice, from a participation of the natural rights of mankind, prove first, to ward off the charge of injustice & inconsistency…will ever shew that man must, in some shape, act like a tyrant, & tyranny, in whatever part of society it rears its brazen front, will ever undermine morality’ (67).

shelley challenges the relationship of oppressed & oppressor in his play & proves that he does not wish for the oppressors to be successful.

(from the paper at https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2391&context=etd)

Mary Shelley e il moderno Prometeo ovvero la narrazione della perdita in Frankenstein
#Frankenstein #MaryShelley #libri
Quando Mary Shelley concepì per la prima volta la trama di Frankenstein, aveva solo 18 anni. Tuttavia, la sua vita era già segnata da...
https://www.tiziano.caviglia.name/2025/04/14/mary-shelley-e-il-moderno-prometeo-ovvero-la-narrazione-della-perdita-in-frankenstein/13191/

#FreeTalk! On May 3 from 2-2:30pm Eastern, I'll be giving a #free online talk on #TheLastMan by #MaryShelley. This talk previews my month-long "Meet The Last Man" module with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity, which is scheduled for June 2025. This is part of the SPACE Showcase day of programming.

Everyone is invited!

Teaser: https://youtu.be/tzV-5T-td38?si=19zzTmQW-W6_w7mG

Info on the May 3 talk: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/events/2025-spring-space-showcase/

#ScienceFiction #Dystopia #EcoGothic #Gothic #SFF #PlagueLit #Books #Bookstodon #OnlineEvent

Pictured (in black and white) is a bust of Mary Shelley with her novel The Last Man and The Mary Shelley Reader anthology from Oxford stacked together in the background.

To my delight, my month-long "Meet #TheLastMan" module with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity has been confirmed. It will run in June 2025.

This #MaryShelley novel is one of the most relevant books we can read right now, and I can't wait to discuss it with students!

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzV-5T-td38

More info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/iteration/2011/

#ScienceFiction #Dystopia #EcoGothic #Gothic #SFF #PlagueLit #Books #Bookstodon

[Rezension] Mathilda – Mary Shelley

Klappentext: Die junge Mathilda wächst nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter einsam und ohne Zuwendung auf. Erst als ihr Vater aus seinem selbst auferlegten Exil zurückkehrt, wagt sie, auf Glück zu hoffen. Doch nach wenigen gemeinsamen Wochen legt sich ein Schatten über die Beziehung der beiden, …

#Literatur #19Jahrhundert #Buch #EnglischeLiteratur #lesen #MaryShelley #Mathilda #PendragonVerlag #SchwarzeRomantik

https://literaturlounge.eu/2025/04/rezension-mathilda-mary-shelley/

Frankenstein Original Book Cover Mary Shelley Woven Throw Blanket - Witchy Blanket by Printagrams https://www.etsy.com/listing/1069599906/frankenstein-original-book-cover-mary?ref=rss&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Frankenstein #MaryShelley #WovenBlanket #CustomBlanket #HomeDecor

📻️⌛️WDR Zeitzeichen: Ein Vulkanausbruch, Schauergeschichten und – das Fahrrad🌋️👻️🚲️

Zehntausende Menschen reißt der Ausbruch des Vulkans Tambora Anfang April 1815 in den Tod. Das folgende Jahr geht nicht nur als „Jahr ohne Sommer“ in die Geschichte ein.

Die Folgen des Vulkanausbruchs 1815 treffen die Welt ungleich: Während Nordamerika, Europa und Russland sich nach den Hungersnöten stabilisieren und langfristig sogar wirtschaftlich und politisch gestärkt aus der Krise hervorgehen, leiden Indien und China noch jahrzehntelang unter den Folgen der Ernteausfälle, Hungersnöte und sozialen Unruhen.

www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-ein-vulkanausbruch-schauergeschichten-und---das-fahrrad-100.html

#WDRZeitzeichen #Zeitzeichen #MaryShelley #Tambora #JahrohneSommer #1816 #Frankenstein

(comment on Flucht aus England)

Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley: Flucht aus England (German language, 2002, Achilla Presse)

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MaryShelley #Hate #Love

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #GoblinValley #Utah

“Disenchantment, when it came…was total.” #Byron #Shelley #MaryShelley

Whilst I'm always really delighted to receive birthday and Christmas books, I've noticed I have the really bad habit of putting them in nice TBR piles and forgetting about them... Which is very naught, but there are always so many bookish distractions! I *have* read and loved books which were kindly sent by Ali and Jacqui, but I was browsing through the stack recently and my eye was caught by one of…

https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/disenchantment-when-it-came-was-total-byron-shelley-maryshelley/

“Under the leadership of Candace Reilly, manager of Special Collections, Drew has successfully brought two major collections online: the unfinished monograph of Dr. Betty T. Bennett, a leading #MaryShelley scholar, and the broader Byron Society Collection, which contains realia related to the Romantic poet #LordByron.” #Archives

https://about.jstor.org/case-studies/drew-university-uses-jstor-digital-stewardship-services/

Today in Labor History March 29, 1797: William Godwin married Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin was an English journalist, philosopher and novelist. And one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. His most famous books are “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice” and “Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams,” a mystery novel that attacks aristocratic privilege. Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, and is regarded by many as one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her most famous book was “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792). She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #feminism #marywollstonecraft #williamgodwin #philosophy #novel #fiction #frankenstein #maryshelley #books #author #writer #journalism @bookstadon

Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie, c. 1797. By John Opie - one or more third parties have made copyright claims against Wikimedia Commons in relation to the work from which this is sourced or a purely mechanical reproduction thereof. This may be due to recognition of the "sweat of the brow" doctrine, allowing works to be eligible for protection through skill and labour, and not purely by originality as is the case in the United States (where this website is hosted). These claims may or may not be valid in all jurisdictions.As such, use of this image in the jurisdiction of the claimant or other countries may be regarded as copyright infringement. Please see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for more information., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=970256

i find all of this extraordinary:

#MaryShelley created "#Frankenstein"

the seminal work (arguably the first work of #scienceFiction)-

humanity creating artificial life

in a ghost story writing contest suggested by #LordByron

the father of #AdaLovelace

who predicted #AI (the first person to seriously address the topic)-

humanity creating an artificial mind

something to think about this #womensHistoryMonth:

the artistic and technological mothers of our age

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995

6/6

an interesting connection:

it was #LordByron who proposed the ghost story writing contest that led to #MaryShelley writing "#Frankenstein", and he was the father of another #womensHistoryMonth notable: #AdaLovelace

her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted #AI

she rejected it

her rejection was not without teeth, because the first non-#scienceFiction champion of AI, #AlanTuring, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/ada-lovelace-worlds-first-computer-programmer-who-predicted-artificial

3/x

#womensHistoryMonth

What do many consider the 1st #scienceFiction?

One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?

#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"

Written as a *teenager*

A teenager who had recently lost a baby

I think that's key

Horror not from taking life

But creating life

She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain

The summer was cold and rainy so #LordByron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest

I think she won

1/x

Today in Labor History March 25, 1811: Oxford University expelled Percy Bysshe Shelley for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. Shelley was an English Romantic poet, radical in both his art and his politics. His poem "The Mask of Anarchy," which he wrote in 1819 after the Peterloo Massacre, is one of the first modern descriptions of nonviolent resistance. His admirers included Karl Marx, Gandhi and George Bernard Shaw. He was married to Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchy #anarchism #atheism #marx #poetry #peterloo #massecre #PercyBisheShelley #gandhi #MaryShelley #frankenstein #writer #author #books #fiction #poet @bookstadon

Portrait of Shelley, by Alfred Clint (1829). By After Amelia Curran – one or more third parties have made copyright claims against Wikimedia Commons in relation to the work from which this is sourced or a purely mechanical reproduction thereof. This may be due to recognition of the "sweat of the brow" doctrine, allowing works to be eligible for protection through skill and labour, and not purely by originality as is the case in the United States (where this website is hosted). These claims may or may not be valid in all jurisdictions.As such, use of this image in the jurisdiction of the claimant or other countries may be regarded as copyright infringement. Please see Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for more information., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6370522

To my delight, my month-long "Meet #TheLastMan" module with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity has been confirmed. It will run in June 2025.

This #MaryShelley novel is one of the most relevant books we can read right now, and I can't wait to discuss it with students!

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2EcVRnhii0

More info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/iteration/2011/

#ScienceFiction #Dystopia #EcoGothic #Gothic #SFF #PlagueLit #Books #Bookstodon