Shelley was obviously influenced by the idea of Romanticism and the importance of imagination and creativity and people such as her father William Godwin, who was a social and political journalist and mother Mary Wollstonecraft, who was one of the first feminists would have heavily influenced her. ... Romanticism began in the early nineteenth century and dramatically changed the way people saw themselves and nature around them. The Romantic Movement marked the practice and reaction in literature, art, religion and politics. Romanticism, which was a reaction to the classicism of the early 18th ...

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