Mentions (35)
"So I work at The Met, and the other day I was in the room in medieval art that they keep the Mary Shelly bust in. Anyway, I'm getting bored, entering that special time of the night where nobody walks in the more out of the way galleries and you begin to go insane from lack of interaction. Then two g"
"One lady kept talking about how Mary Shelley was problematic and racist—another one said she was a homewrecker—and one said Percy was a groomer. I was too stunned to say anything."
"he's a young man still figuring things out but he has a job, he has interests and hobbies and a good sense of humor! so many people on here are just straight up stupid with no curiosity about the world they live in; boors who think it's the pinnacle of wit to call each other gay retards."
"I don't want to identify myself because he will definitely be reading this but he has made his obsessions with this subreddit pretty clear to anyone that knows him. He just went nuts over being banned from here and is saying some things that are quite concerning to those around him."
"I was in line at the Met to see the Mary Shelley bust, and I heard a cracking laugh. I looked towards the sound and saw Dasha!! She was walking into the Met (hopefully to see the Mary Shelley bust), but security stopped her from entering."
"The Mary Shelley gangstalking arc is something I didn't see coming. So apparently there's an entire discord servers of people 'who have been harassing him for 6 months'"
"The books Mary chose the creature to read were PERFECT and were mentioned throughout the story. The stories also relate much better to the creature than Ozymandias. It was disappointing how little Paradise Lost was mentioned in the movie."
"Preliminary categories: Movie featuring a socialite or reality tv star, movie featuring a model turned actress, movie with a less than 3 lb rating, movie with a less than 2 lb rating, movie starring Karen Black, movie starring Barbara Steele, movie with an actor before they were famous, movie from t"
"https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/1o79h3b/frankenstein_author_mary_shelley_kept_her/"
"She was an incredible author. I mean, my god she wrote Frankenstein at age 18 (basically on a dare). And she was beautiful."
"Either they are both autistic or they are both normal, there is no middle ground."
"This thread is for hating on the early 19th century English novelist Mary Shelley. Feel free to post in here if you hate Mary Shelley."
"Idk if someone will take up the posting for the Bible book club but the Mary Shelley one is over."
"Here is a spreadsheet of all the things she has mentioned she has read https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yQAznbyzp_FGOWEaxx56lvgBrwnL4v0TaiMPbVDCyjQ/edit?usp=sharing I will be using this to keep track. Here is a PDF that somebody found that will be good because I think the first couple will be"
"Here is my list of Mary Shelley art, there is one piece of art that is nowhere else online from what I could tell and it has the correct date on another one of her paintings that is wrong everywhere else. (1815, one of four pieces of art, and is nowhere else online!!)"
"Why am I about to write? What have I to record since I last wrote? When first my most miserable loss was ascertained – grief – intolerable & uncontrollable possessed me – then came despair – during a long year at Genoa the bitter beverage was served out to me day by day – I had intervals of calm – b"
"I would really like to see it cause all we have are paintings"
"Please read Paradise Regained with me for the Mary Shelley reading lost book club!! Books 1 and 2 discussion was posted today and books 3 and 4 will be on 11/20!! After this we will do the Iliad"
"She also wrote a letter about it she said 'How very entertaining it is, and how exceeding beautiful are many of the stories'. I wish she spoke of me like that........this is from the book I have of her journals."
"Not many people have joined and it is very upsetting"
"This will be on r/rsbookclub !!"
"MaryShelleyStepOnMe would never wear an outfit he wouldn't want to meet Mary Shelley in."
"She was an incredible author. I mean, my god she wrote Frankenstein at age 18 (basically on a dare). And she was beautiful."
"Idk if someone will take up the posting for the Bible book club but the Mary Shelley one is over."
"Here is my list of Mary Shelley art, there is one piece of art that is nowhere else online from what I could tell and it has the correct date on another one of her paintings that is wrong everywhere else."
"Why am I about to write? What have I to record since I last wrote? When first my most miserable loss was ascertained – grief – intolerable & uncontrollable possessed me"
"I would really like to see it cause all we have are paintings"
"I don't want to do Mary's parents, Percy, or anyone in their circle until the end – after that we will go through all of Mary's works."
"Mary Shelley read the 35th canto in Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto... She also wrote a letter about it she said 'How very entertaining it is, and how exceeding beautiful are many of the stories'"
"The Mary Shelley bookclub on r/rsbookclub is still going on!!"
"I read five of his poems for the Mary Shelley book club on r/rsbookclub"
"I was looking through her journals today and this one was practically sad. It is around a couple months after Percy died."
"After Percy died, Mary Shelley had financial trouble and had to move back to England from Italy. She later went back to Italy with her son and wrote about her travels there though she still lived in England."
"She was so beautiful and talented 😩😩😩😩😩why would he do such a thing"
"I was looking through this list of books Mary Shelley has read [here](https://romantic-circles.org/editions/frankenstein/MShelley/readalph) and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in going through some of them."