George Gordon Noel Byron was born in London on the twenty-second of January in 1778. As a child he was simply known as George Gordon. He was born with a clubfoot that was a problem for him the first decade of his life. His mother, Catherine Gordon, was alone during the end of her pregnancy and ha...
Mary Shelley: Achieving Excellence Through Her Sorrows Influenced greatly by her mother and father, two of the greatest radical literary writers of the eighteenth century, Mary Shelley was predestined to be equally as moving and thought provoking as her parents. The death of her mother at her ...
GCSE Prose Coursework: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein At the time Shelley was writing her novel, "Frankenstein", the world was discovering things daily, so her writings were relevant and justified at that time. Many scientists and explorers of the nineteenth century were conquering new ideas and dis...
