Happy Birthday, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley!

Aug 30, 2014 08:55

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


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mrua7 August 30 2014, 14:23:09 UTC
Thank you for the wishes! I like that 'early' happy birthday!

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eldritchhobbit September 7 2014, 13:12:45 UTC
Yay! You're most welcome!

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whswhs August 30 2014, 15:10:20 UTC
One of my long-running fancies has been the idea of a novel about William Blake's love affair with Mary Wollstonecraft. There are bits of Blake that could be interpreted as evidence of this: his poem "Mary" (Some said she was proud, some called her a whore) and the line in "An Island in the Moon" where Quid the Cynic (Blake's avatar character) says to an unnamed woman "I think your face is like that noble beast the Tyger." Of course it would be all invention, a kind of historical fanfic. . . .

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equusentric August 30 2014, 15:43:27 UTC
I would read that.

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eldritchhobbit September 7 2014, 13:13:08 UTC
Oh wow, I would read that, too! Sounds brilliant!

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