3 days ago by Jim Baker

The time was 1819. The location was Manchester, England on a crowded St. Peter's Field. Over 80,000 people stood defiantly to demand reform and an end to hunger in the British Empire. Armed cavalry troops charged into the crowd and it became known as the Peterloo Massacre. In response to the blo ...

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15 days ago by annimi

Polidori was the friend and personal physician of the infamous rogue and poet, Lord Byron. He was also part of the close-knit circle of friends, including Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Byron, and Claire Clairmont, Mary’s stepsister, and also Byron’s woman of the hour. Polidori was Byron’s personal ph ...

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26 days ago by Tom Lynch

A minority of literary historians have, over time, advanced the claim that Mary Shelley did not actually write the classic “Frankenstein,” and that her husband, Percy, simply dictated it to her. Others believe that the two collaborated on the book together—originally published anonymously in 1818—an ...

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28 days ago by El Cabrero

The warm sun is falling, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth is her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. Come, Months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest array; Follow the bier Of the dead cold Year, ...

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38 days ago by Jeanne

Monday night I needed my extra-insulated parka to be able to sit outside and watch a soccer game. It didn't seem fair that I was being dive-bombed by mosquitoes when it was that cold. Finally, when we could no longer see the players, the game was called on account of dark. Tuesday I drove for two ho ...

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40 days ago by miseraestupendacitta

How we prize what we despised when present. So the ghosts of our dead associations rise and haunt us, in revenge for our having let them starve, and abandoned them to perish. - Percy Shelley, letter, August 1819

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44 days ago by Cut-tv

La nostra esplorazione della Roma Nascosta oggi si avventura dentro uno dei mausolei più bizzarri e in vista della capitale. Come ci insegna La lettera rubata di Poe per nascondere bene qualcosa basta lasciarlo sotto gli occhi di tutti, e la Piramide Cestia con la sua imponete struttura architettoni ...

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53 days ago by questionsandanchors

The Monsters rocked my socks off about a month ago. I loaned it to Sonika when I visited her, so sadly I can’t give any quotes. Well-researched and equally well-written, The Monsters is a captivating read for anyone interested in Frankenstein, Mary and Percy Shelley, or Lord Byron. If you weren’t in ...

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63 days ago by Dee

Posted on Blogcritics.org Mary Shelley was a rather extraordinary woman in her time, although this really had to be expected considering that her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the mothers of the Feminist Revolution. Still, the younger Mary managed to publish at 19 years old (anonymously) on ...

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65 days ago by Arbogast

I was having a look at Jack Arnold's TARANTULA (1955) the other day and was struck by a random thought that suggested to me a radical re-reading of this classic "big bug" movie.The spark that lighted my flame was the scene late in the game in which Leo G. Carroll's Dr. Deemer, infected with the irra ...

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