9/18/2023 0 Comments Genius frankenstein annotationsThere was morning and its balmy air, noon and its exhilarating heat, evening and its wondrous sunset, night and its starry pageant. I had even begun to contemplate painlessly the blue expanse of the tranquil sea, speckled by the snow-white sails, gazed upon by the unclouded stars. I awoke with the light and beheld the theatre of nature from my window the trees spread their green beauty before me, the resplendent sky was above me, the mountains were invested with enchanting colours. I was still in Italy, and my heart and imagination were both gratified by that circumstance. Yes, solitary and unbeloved as I was there, I enjoyed a more pleasurable state of being than I do here. I even regret those days and weeks of intense melancholy that composed my life at Genoa. I have now been nearly four months in England, and if I am to judge of the future by the past and the present, I have small delight in looking forward. Now, after five years in Italy and still in her mid-20s, Shelley was back in England with her son, and she was struggling to adapt to this new way of life. Since 1815, she had endured the deaths of three of the four children she shared with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and in 1822 also suffered a miscarriage in 1816, her 22-year-old half-sister, Fanny Imlay, died by suicide and in July of 1822, her husband perished in a sailing accident. When Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley returned to London in July of 1823, she was ravaged by grief following a string of tragedies. Mary Shelley by Richard Rothwell, oil on canvas, circa 1831-1840, NPG 1235
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