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Today in Labor History March 29, 1797: William Godwin married Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin was an English journalist, philosopher and novelist. And one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. His most famous books are “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice” and “Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams,” a mystery novel that attacks aristocratic privilege. Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, and is regarded by many as one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her most famous book was “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792). She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #feminism #marywollstonecraft #williamgodwin #philosophy #novel #fiction #frankenstein #maryshelley #books #author #writer #journalism @bookstadon

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i find all of this extraordinary:

#MaryShelley created "#Frankenstein"

the seminal work (arguably the first work of #scienceFiction)-

humanity creating artificial life

in a ghost story writing contest suggested by #LordByron

the father of #AdaLovelace

who predicted #AI (the first person to seriously address the topic)-

humanity creating an artificial mind

something to think about this #womensHistoryMonth:

the artistic and technological mothers of our age

bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995

6/6

Image of a human head with cogs
BBC NewsA Point of View: Will machines ever be able to think?The pursuit of "machine intelligence" has long interested computer scientists, but will machines ever think for themselves, ask Lisa Jardine.

#womensHistoryMonth

What do many consider the 1st #scienceFiction?

One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?

#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"

Written as a *teenager*

A teenager who had recently lost a baby

I think that's key

Horror not from taking life

But creating life

She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain

The summer was cold and rainy so #LordByron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest

I think she won

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Today in Labor History March 25, 1811: Oxford University expelled Percy Bysshe Shelley for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. Shelley was an English Romantic poet, radical in both his art and his politics. His poem "The Mask of Anarchy," which he wrote in 1819 after the Peterloo Massacre, is one of the first modern descriptions of nonviolent resistance. His admirers included Karl Marx, Gandhi and George Bernard Shaw. He was married to Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchy #anarchism #atheism #marx #poetry #peterloo #massecre #PercyBisheShelley #gandhi #MaryShelley #frankenstein #writer #author #books #fiction #poet @bookstadon

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"I gazed upon the picture of my mother, which stood over the mantlepiece. It was a historical subject, painted at my father's desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling at the coffin of her dead father."

What the fuck is wrong with Frankenstein men?!?

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Elizabeth is his cousin in this version... Not an orphan who would be a "pretty present for my Victor"

The cousin who's mother dies and who's father dumps her on the Franksteins (her mother is Papa Frankenstein's sister)...

But Victor is ever the utter arse "I loved to tend on her, as I should on a favourite animal"

Not sure which is better tbh...

2024 Wrap-Up: Talks

Some of my talks from this year are available online.

* Why You Should Read #TheLastMan by #MaryShelley
Link: youtu.be/_k9pH0dNPVg

* Why You Should Read #Frankenstein by #MaryShelley
Link: youtu.be/19gOThR5dZw

* A Fortnight in the Wilderness with #Tocqueville
Link: youtu.be/OaT-17hgAFU

* “Missing Students & Their Fictional Afterlives: #TrueCrime, #CrimeFiction, & #DarkAcademia" (given at the Popular Culture Research Network’s “Guilty Pleasures: Examining #Crime in #PopularCulture” conference)
Link: dropbox.com/scl/fi/q221yilebjo

#SFF #ScienceFiction #History #Literature #19thCentury #IntellectualHistory #Books