Or Prometheus Unbound features a scientist who creates a humanoid who, not finding acceptance among human beings, becomes truly monstrous. I travelled to these countries with my infant daughter, Fanny, to recover a lost treasure ship! My daughter, Mary Shelley, wrote one of the first science-fiction books. Letters Written in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Something interesting: I wrote a travel book-cum-memoir in 1796, It would be another 100 years and more before this became possible! I also argued that, besides civil and political rights, women needed elected representatives of their own. I insisted again that education is important for a woman and that the school curriculum had to change to suit a woman’s place in society. Published in 1792, it is read even today. My Most Famous Work: Vindication of the Rights of Women. I spoke up for the hard-working, suffering middle class who led the revolution. Vindication of the Rights of Men written in 1790, about the French Revolution of 1789. I also wrote: Original Stories from Real Life (1788), my only work of children’s literature, and The cause of education always remained important to me. I believed that women being primary caregivers as mothers and teachers needed to be educated. Books had long titles those days! This is an early self-help book. My first book: Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, appeared in 1787. It was unusual then for a woman to be a writer, and so I was the ‘First of A New Genus!’įriends who mattered: Fanny Blood, a dear friend of my youth Jane Arden, an educator her father John, a philosopher Richard Price, a minister known for his ‘dissenting’ views and Joseph Johnson, my publisher. I decided to support myself as a writer, and began writing for theĪnalytical Review. After it failed, I worked as a governess. At 25, with my sisters and a friend, I set up a girls’ boarding school. I also taught myself French, German and Dutch.Ī few things I did first: I was determined to be independent. Though I lacked a formal education, I read widely, was curious and questioned everything. The beginning: I was born on April 27, 1759, in Spitalfields, London.Įarly lessons: My father lost the family fortune due to bad investments.
Writer, educator, a radical thinker a ‘feminist’, though the word wasn’t known in my time!
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