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Mary Shelleyová
Britská spisovateľka Mary Shelleyová, autorka románu Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, sa narodila 30. augusta 1797 v Londýne.

Inšpiráciu pre literárne dielo, ktoré sa stalo predlohou pre mnoho literárnych a filmových diel a komiksov, našla autorka počas pobytu na brehu Ženevského jazera a v rámci nočných diskusií o strašidlách s lordom Byronom a ďalším známym. Román Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (Frankenstein alebo Moderný Prométeus) vyšiel 11. marca 1818. Kniha sa stala jedným z prvých bestsellerov ženskej autorky.
      Mary Shelleyová mala život bohatý na tragické udalosti, ale nechýbalo v ňom ani dobrodružstvo. Matka jej zomrela niekoľko dní po pôrode. Otec riešil nezhody dieťaťa so svojou druhou manželkou tak, že ju dal na výchovu do rodiny v Škótsku. Vzdelanie jej zabezpečilo čítanie literárnych diel jej otca, filozofa a anarchistu, a matky spisovateľky a feministky, bojovníčky za vzdelávanie dievčat. Učila sa po latinsky, francúzsky a taliansky.
      Svojho budúceho manžela Percy Bysshe Shelleyho stretla v dome svojho otca. Bola veľmi mladá, len šestnásťročná, keď s ním, nešťastne ženatým mladíkom ušla v roku 1814 do Európy. Neskôr básnikovi porodila viacero detí, dospelosti sa však dožil len syn Percy Florence.
      Milenci žili v Európe. Precestovali Nemecko, Taliansko a Švajčiarsko. V decembri 1816 sa v britskej metropole Londýne zosobášili. Umožnila to nešťastná smrť Shelleyho manželky, ktorá sa utopila. V roku 1822 dvojica žila pri Ženevskom jazere. Nešťastná Mary prežila potrat, ktorý ju takmer stál život. Ďalšia tragédia na ňu ešte čakala. Jej manžel sa ešte v tom istom roku utopil v nečakanej búrke, keď sa plavil po jazere na svojej lodi.
      Zničená Shelleyová sa v roku 1823 vrátila do Londýna. Väčšina jej diel pochádza z tohto obdobia. Okrem románov prispievala do magazínov ako napríklad London Magazine alebo Westminster Review. Búrlivý život a prežité tragédie sa odrazili na jej zdravotnom stave, od roku 1840 trpela viacerými chorobami. Zomrela vo svojom londýnskom dome 1. februára 1851. Dožila sa 53 rokov.
      Podpísaný výtlačok z prvého vydania románu Frankenstein britskej spisovateľky Mary Shelleyovej sa dostal do dražby v roku 2009. Nachádzal sa v zbierke artefaktov zo sveta sci-fi a hororu, ktorú zhromaždil Američan Forrest J. Ackerman.
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The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to England from Italy after her husband's death. It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates the story, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague. The Last Man also functions as an intriguing roman a clef, for the saintly Adrian is a monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his friend Lord Raymond is a portrait of Byron. The novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, as Shelley demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem her doomed characters.
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