romantic/gothic novelist. She was born in Somers Town, London. Mary received an excellent education, which was unusual for girls at the time. She never went to school, but she was taught to read and write by her housekeeper and her father. She was married to a romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She began writing "Frankenstein" when she was only eighteen and it had conceived from a nightmare. Mary died, aged 54, at Chester Square in London, England. She was buried in St. Peter's churchyard in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. The Book The story begins in a vessel in the North Pole where captain Robert Walton was on a voyage of discovery. Suddenly he saw a man and he was Victor Frankenstein. Victor was very ill and he started to tell Robert about his miserable life. Victor lived with his family in Switzerland. When Victor was a child, he wanted to learn the hidden laws of nature, the secrets of heaven and earth. When he became
Too often some banality, but some lyrics are delicately moving. Edward Young: The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality – melancholy meditations Robert Blair: the mood of Youngs and his major poems are predominantly sombre, reflective, melancholic, and moral. Both Central members of a loose groupng „The Graveyard Poets”. The Grave – a dramatic evocation of the horrors of corruption and of the solitude of death. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard – draws together feelings of the era. Sense of isolation, withrawal into inner self, poet as man of feeling meditating on obscurity and death, time and history, fame and passion. 32. The „Comedy of Manners” (Goldsmith, Sheridan) Witty form of dramatic comedy, depicts and often satirizes the manners and affectations (teesklus) of contemporary society. Concerned with social usage and whether or not characters meet certain social standards
the Redwoods (1901), and Openings in the Old Trail (1902) were some of his many later works. Though Anna moved to London in 1898 she did not live with Harte. He had been living, some say as a kept man, for a number of years at the estate of his friend and agent, Madame Hydeline Van de Velde. Francis Brett Harte died of throat cancer on 5 May 1902 at the Van de Velde estate in Camberley and lies buried in St. Peter's churchyard, Frimley, England. The gravestone is etched with one of his own poems "Death Shall Reap the Braver Harvest." William Dean Howells, (genteel realism) a fearless and enthusiastic champion of the new school, felt that he must say what he observed and knew. Howells viewed realism as "nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material." In defense of the real, as opposed to the
162 Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord: I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly douts it. Exit KING CLAUDIUS Let's follow, Gertrude: How much I had to do to calm his rage! Now fear I this will give it start again; Therefore let's follow. Exeunt 163 Act V SCENE I. A churchyard. Enter two Clowns, with spades, & c First Clown Is she to be buried in Christian burial that wilfully seeks her own salvation? Second Clown I tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial. First Clown How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence? Second Clown Why, 'tis found so. First Clown It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else. For
together. The owner was "averse to either course" and asked to take the queen to Stirling- Webb for him to see her for himself. Stirling-Webb later wrote: "When I saw this queen, I was astonished at her beauty. Apart from her colouring, she possessed practically no Siamese characteristics, and was reasonably Persian in type. I was also amazed that nothing was known of her origin due to the fact that she had been a stray living in a country churchyard for about six weeks before being adopted by this lady. The police had been informed of her adoption, and advertisements were placed in the local papers in an attempt to contact the original owner, but without success." The stray queen later became known as "Bubastis Georgina". Unfortunately her habits meant she was "quite unfit to live in a civilised house" and in spite of persevering with her, her adopter offered her to Stirling-Webb as a cattery cat. By then,
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