Since the world will be celebrating International Women’s Day this month, my friend Resh @thebooksatchel organized a bunch of Bookstagrammers to post about women author all month long and she created a tag for the occasion 👉🏼 #FemmeMarch. I decide to go with Mary Shelley because I feel that her book, Frankenstein is a true masterpiece! Here are three fun facts about this remarkable author from the 19th century. . 1-Mary Shelley came from a family of intellectuals: Her parents were Mary Wollstonecraft, one of history's first feminist writers, and William Godwin, a philosopher. 2-Lord Byron may have inspired Shelley to write her most famous work. As the legend goes, Byron, Mary, Percy, and Byron's personal physician, Dr. John William Polidori, stayed up late one night, discussing the occult and reading ghost stories. Byron challenged the group to write a horror story, which led Mary to produce the story that would become Frankenstein. She wasn't the only one whose story would go down in history: Polidori wrote "The Vampyre," widely considered the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. 3-When Mary started writing Frankenstein, she was just 19. By the time of the book's 1818 publishing, she was only 21. . . Please feel free to use the #FemmeMarch tag this month when posting women authors. Don’t forget to check out today’s other #FemmeMarch post which is George Eliot by @bookmusing. Then tomorrow, keep an eye out for posts by @beth.bonini and @thenobbylife. * * * * * #Frankenstein #MaryShelley #vintagebook #bookcollection #womenauthors #womenshistorymonth #womenslit #classicliterature #internationalwomensday2018
