Download e-book for kindle: Tea and Frankenstein: Mary Shelley and the Prometheans by Keith Jones

This novel offers insights into the origins of the booklet Frankenstein and different gothic vampire novels, in addition to poems of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley and different British Prometheans, with many insights into the again tale of the innovative idealistic circulate from pre-Victorian period, that have many classes to coach for our international at the present time. This novel spans the complete lifetime of Mary Shelley, her stepsisters Claire and fanny, and stepbrother Charles, father Dr. William Godwin - the well-known British atheist writer and gothic novelist, her mom Mary Wollstonecraft - the recognized British feminist writer, who died at Mary's beginning, and her stepmother Mary Jane Clairmont, the straight forward instructor who lived round the corner with illegitimate kids with wealthy American fathers. the unconventional highlights how Dr. Godwin met his other halves, the adolescence adventures and pranks of Mary and her sister Claire to be encouraged through gothic novels and early technological know-how fiction myth and ghost tales to behave out and write their very own tales and performs, with a penchant for plenty of scenes to write down approximately later within the novella 'Frankenstein' after a competition whilst Mary, Claire and Percy Shelley ran clear of the Godwin loved ones to go to the Swiss property of Lord Byron for a summer time holiday that not just hatched the novels 'Frankenstein' and 'Vampyres', but in addition an ill-fated plan by means of the Promethean poets to again and perform an ill-fated mercenary enterprise to aim to sabotage and overthrow the Ottoman Empire in Greece -- which without delay ended in the loss of life of Shelley at sea, and Byron just a couple of months later mysteriously like Alexander in his personal mattress. Mary and Claire then go back to Britain, either pregnant with young ones of Shelley and Byron, yet are rejected by means of their mom and dad as fallen ladies. finally, they reconcile, as all of them convert to Anglican Christianity, and reside out the remainder of their lives writing books and performs to denounce their previous aid for atheism, unfastened love and feminist revolutionary perspectives - and to supply performs akin to 'Frankenstein' and different gothic stories as cautionary morality stories, and to put in writing and put up poetry and books of concept to easy lives of ethical advantage and self-discipline - and to additionally aid the schooling of girls at similar point as males. a few scenes are mature, yet suggested with discretion for secondary and faculty English literature and artistic poetry or dramatic arts.