Mary Shelley was an English author born in 1797 who is best known for her novel Frankenstein. She came from an advanced family for the time and received a good education. She eloped with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1814 against her father's wishes. They traveled Europe where Mary began writing Frankenstein in 1816. The novel was published anonymously in 1818. Mary faced many hardships including the deaths of children and her husband before dying of cancer in 1851. The document also summarizes several other notable female writers such as Carmen Laforet, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bronte.

1. MARY SHELLEY AND OTHER
FEMALE WRITERS
➢ JOSE COB DE LA MATA
➢ HAMZA HALBOUZ
➢ DANIEL CALERO LAGAR
➢ LUCAS RAMOS DORADO

2. MARY SHELLEY, HER FIRST
YEARS
● Mary Shelley was born on August
30, 1797, in London, England. Her
parents were the philosopher
William Godwin and the famed
feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
● Mary's mother died of a
postpartum infection after giving
birth, so she and her older half
sister, Fanny Imlay, would be
raised by his father.
● She received an advanced
education for a girl of her time. She
lived in a boarding school at
Ramsgate, and her father described
her as a brave girl, open minded
and intelligent.
Mary’s house in Somers
Town, London.

3. MARY’S MARRIAGE
● In 1814, when she was in Scotland,
Mary began a relationship with
poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. He was
still married when they first met.
Mary’s father was very angry
because of his love with Percey,
and he decided not speak to her for
some time.
● Mary and Percy Shelley traveled
about Europe for a time. Mary’s
first son died when he was only a
child, and her marriage was
destroyed, because they were very
poor, and Percey was all the day
escaping from the police, because
he had a lot of debts.
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4. FRANKENSTEIN
● The Shelleys were in Switzerland with Jane
Clairmont, Lord Byron and John Polidori. The
group entertained themselves one rainy day by
reading a book of ghost stories. Lord Byron
suggested that they all should try their hand at
writing their own horror story. It was at this time
that Mary Shelley began work on what would
become her most famous novel, Frankenstein.
● In 1818, Frankenstein, or the Modern
Prometheus debuted as a new novel from an
anonymous author.
● The joy did not last long, Mary’s sister committed
suicide, and she lost two more of their children.
● Finally, Percey drowned in a river. Mary Shelley
worked hard to support herself and her son. She
wrote several more novels, including Valperga
and The Last Man.

5. MARY’S DEATH
● Mary Shelley died of brain
cancer on February 1, 1851, at
age 53, in London, England.
She was buried at St. Peter's
Church in Bournemouth, laid
to rest with the cremated
remains of her late husband.

6. OTHER FEMALE WRITERS
● Carmen Laforet
● Edith Wharton
● Emily Brontë

7. CARMEN LAFORET
● She was born in Barcelona on
September 6, 1921 and died in
Majadahonda on February 28, 2004.
● She got a prize because she wrote a
book called “nada”, also achieving the
prize nobel of literature after writing
“la mujer nueva”.
● Carmen wanted to be a painter because
at home only talked about art and
artist, therefore his family seemed
them like a natural vocation, but what I
did not know Carmen is born with the
soul of artist.

8. EDITH WHARTON
● She was born in New York on January 24,
1862 and she died on august 11, 1937 in
France.she was a professional writer and
designer. In 1885, at the age of 23, Edith
married with Edward Robbins Wharton. they
divorced in 1913 for repeated and public
infidelities of her husband, which affected her
mental and physically.
● In 1914, when World War I broke out, Edith
Wharton was wealthy, famous, recently
divorced, and living in her favorite city, Paris.
Instead of withdrawing to the safety of
England or returning to the United States,
Wharton chose to stay and devote herself to
creating a complex network of charitable and
humanitarian organizations.

9. EDITH WHARTON’S BOOKS
● Wharton wrote many novels, starting
in 1905 with the publication of the
The House of Mirth, a story that
attacked the aristocratic society of
which she was a most prominent
member.
● Other novel is The Fruit of the Tree to
deal directly with issues such as
euthanasia, the problems of labor
and industrial conditions, and
professions for women.

10. Emily Brontë
● She was born in Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom,
30 July 1818 and died in Yorkshire, in the United
Kingdom, on December 19, 1848.
● It was a British writer who wrote important works
such as "Glass Town, "No coward soul is mine" or
"Gondal queen"
● She used the male pseudonym “Ellis Bell” for his
literary talent was recognized, since at that time,
women couldn´t write novels
● His poetry and, in fact, the most passionate and
charming is written from the perspective of the
inhabitants of "Gondal". For Emily, it seems that
the fantastic adventures in Gondal coexist in the
almost equal importance level with the reality. with
the world only dedicates itself to the tasks of the
home

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