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" It is not singular that, as the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity, I should very early in life have thought of writing. As a child I scribbled; and my favourite pastime, during the hours given me for recreation, was to 'write... "
Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus - Página v
por Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1891 - 317 páginas
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International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science

1851 - 588 páginas
...of an immortal name." In the introduction to one of her novels, she herself says of her youth : " It is not singular that, as the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity, I should • We have much yel to do for a class whom it is a shame to name* and that much miint be done by women...
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A Cyclopædia of Female Biography ... [A revised abridgement, with additions ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1857 - 810 páginas
...afterwards so fully developed. In the introduction to one of her novels, she herself says of her youth : "It is not singular that, as the daughter of two persons...air; the indulging in waking dreams; the following tip trains of thought, which had for their subject the formation if a succession of imaginary incidents....
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Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality

Emily W. Sunstein - 1991 - 514 páginas
...Preface to Frankenstein, her brief, incomplete, and sole autobiographical account of her early years, "and my favourite pastime, during the hours given me for recreation, was to Vrite stories' ": Still I had a dearer pleasure than this, which was the formation of castles in the...
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The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein

Audrey Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor - 1993 - 312 páginas
...manner very similar to Euthanasia. In the 1831 "Author's Introduction" to Frankenstein, Shelley wrote, Still, I had a dearer pleasure than this, which was...the indulging in waking dreams — the following up of trains of thought, which had for their subject the formation of a succession of imaginary incidents....
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Shelley - 1993 - 212 páginas
...have connection with my authorship alone, I can scarcely accuse myself of a personal intrusion. It is not singular that, as the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity,1 I should very early in life have thought of writing. As a child I scribbled; and my favourite...
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De romantische griezelroman: gothic novel : een merkwaardig rand ...

Hendrik van Gorp - 1998 - 124 páginas
...drang tot schrijven nog aangewakkerd. Maar zijzelf wijst op nog een andere impuls uit haar jeugd : "the formation of castles in the air — the indulging in waking dreams (...) My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings" (p. 453). Dit was voldoende...
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Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives

Helen M. Buss, D. L. Macdonald, Anne McWhir - 2006 - 340 páginas
...Kathleen Scherf WWM Mary Wollstonecraft, The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria, ed. Gary Kelly Introduction "It is not singular that, as the daughter of two persons...should very early in life have thought of writing" (FMP 176): so Mary Shelley put it, with characteristic modesty. Anne K. Mellor, more boldly, has described...
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Frankenstein. Ediz.inglese

Mary Shelley - 2001 - 228 páginas
...presso Giunti Industrie Grafiche SpA - Stabilimento di Prato Introduction "It is not singular that as daughter of two persons of distinguished literary...should very early in life have thought of writing". The "distinguished literary celebrities" mentioned in this posthumous tribute are Mary Shelley's parents....
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Roadmap to 8th Grade Reading, Virginia Edition

Michael Segretto, Princeton Review (Firm) - 2002 - 240 páginas
...achievements inspired the young girl. Shelley later wrote, "As a child I scribbled; and my favorite pastime during the hours given me for recreation was to 'write stories.'" As she grew older, Shelley befriended many other writers, including the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
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Roadmap to 8th Grade Reading, North Carolina Edition

Princeton Review (Firm) - 2002 - 239 páginas
...achievements inspired the young girl. Shelley later wrote, "As a child I scribbled; and my favorite pastime during the hours given me for recreation was to 'write stories.'" As she grew older, Shelley befriended many other writers, including the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
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