I did a research on Mary Shelly back in 1978 in high school. I was so amazed at what I found out. She would at times, spend hours at her mom's gravesite during those turbulent times with her step mom. I could see how she developed the story of Frankenstein through her own life experience. Lot of people thought there was a cures but on them after the book Frankenstein.

Missed fact: Mary kept Percy’s heart after he died.

@outofthebex

4 жыл бұрын

I read that was speculated but not proven. Cool weird info though!

@pumpkinpatch5

4 жыл бұрын

outofthebex Yes, I suppose they could look into their son’s resting place and see if it’s there, but, I guess it wouldn’t go down well! It remains an intriguingly creepy detail though!

@namelessfaceless5748

4 жыл бұрын

@@outofthebex most of what you share was speculated so what's the difference?

@amandab3946

4 жыл бұрын

She kept his calcified heart on her study desk, wrapped in a poem written by Percy. Talk about gothic.

@itsklover12

3 жыл бұрын

@@namelessfaceless5748 omg find a hobby away from the keyboard, how sad 🤣

You did a good job with this. Free love sounds great, but it's never really free- somebody ends up paying for it, one way or another. It's very telling that Mary Shelley never remarried after Percy died at 29... she was just in her mid twenties having suffered miscarriages, child deaths and suicides on both sides of the family. She had grown up fast and was done, done, done. After one miscarriage in Italy, Percy had her in a tub of ice for hours so she wouldn't bleed out. Jane outlived them all but Mary lived a long time compared to Percy and his buddies.

@loanicastillo3327

8 ай бұрын

All that was the consequence of her sin.

I have been studying Mary Shelley since at least 1968, I am glad this video was not my first introduction to her biography and significance.

@loanicastillo3327

8 ай бұрын

I have done so just recently and she is not totally accurate in the video. I would love you made some videos too or let us know of your personal research.

@ashtynbritt7889

3 ай бұрын

I would love a response video

Thanks for sharing. I’m so lucky to have the rarest Frankenstein of them all: The 1821 second overall edition published in Paris and the first edition to attribute Mary Shelley as the author which was the only such edition to do so during the lifetime of Percy Shelley who was said to be extremely proud of the 1821 French translation which plays heavily on supernatural elements and dark magic. Only six surviving copies are known to exist with the American copy held by the Beinecke library at Yale. (Also now held in Mary Shelley’s former home town of Dundee ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿)

@outofthebex

4 жыл бұрын

JÖHN GRAY AMAZING!!!! i would so love to see a photo of the edition. What a fantastic center piece for your collection, you are truly stewarding literary history with a book like that

@stevenhorst199

3 жыл бұрын

How lucky you are to be in possession of these treasures. I'm interested in how you came into possession of them originally. Purchase or gifted or passed down. And were the pages too fragile for you to handle reading them or did you do so carefully once. Thank you for sharing your story.

@JodiLeaSnakeQueen

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenhorst199 me too

@JodiLeaSnakeQueen

3 жыл бұрын

How'd you get them?

@stevenhorst199

3 жыл бұрын

@@JodiLeaSnakeQueen Hi JodiLie from me in Deadwood, SD! Nice to see someone who has an appetite for Classic literature also has a curious mind. Ha. Rare books like Gray has possession of didn't just come down the chimney with Santa Claus one lucky Christmas morning. His no comment yet I hope doesn't speak volumes. Ha. You take care! :)

Very good video! I’m not shocked by all the 18th century depression, out of wedlock sex, adultery, drunkenness and so forth. People are people no matter the societal rules.

@outofthebex

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I am SO happy you liked it. One thing I love about reading biographies is that is gives me a relevant timeline to appreciate history. Studying her gave me such a better understanding of that time period. I had no idea of the culture then, especially overseas! Books are so great to me. I love expanding my mind like that :) thanks for watching!!!

I have just stumbled on your channel, but I don't know that I'll return. While I can certainly see that you're an intelligent person, the opinionated reading without context and the trivializing of both Mary Shelley and "this Percy guy." The whole video discounts beliefs and principles. It teeters on the shallow more often than not. I wish you well and wish you a deeper reading on your subjects in the future.

Man, this was heavy. Frankenstein is one of my all time favs and I had no idea...

@outofthebex

5 жыл бұрын

Didn't it blow your mind?! you should have seen my face when I was reading the biography. I think I still have a bruise from my jaw hitting the floor.

@namelessfaceless5748

4 жыл бұрын

@@outofthebex more ridiculous over the top millenial speak. Fwiw it is cringey to most Gen Exers.

Just an incredible dive into her life. Appreciate all the work that went into this. Nailed it!

These "10 facts about..." series you do is so interesting! More please! 🙆‍♀️

@outofthebex

5 жыл бұрын

That means THE WORLD to me. Thank you so much! They are so fun to research but they do take a heck of a lot of time so I really appreciate you dropping this comment for encouragement

@sierraf96

5 жыл бұрын

@@outofthebex ive been debating reading pride and prejudice at some point so maybe u can do one of these on that author! But i understand it takes a while to compile content. Definitely a good 1x a month series or something, keep us viewers coming back. 💞

@brandigray997

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, please. I am loving these!

Hour long video about Mary Shelly, studying can wait.

yasssss thank you!!! much needed. you and mary have impacted me today. a lesson learned just in time!

Thank you so much for making this video - it must have been taken so much work!!!!! I'm doing an English Literature A-Level in England currently and I took the course (mainly) for the sections we're doing on Romanticism. I find it fascinating, and it's wonderful to see the amount of love that goes into learning more about the people and culture of the period. Will be watching the rest of this in my frees!! :)

This was awesome! Thank you. I truly enjoyed this! ❤

Thank you for this video. Educational, while conversational and fun. Just subscribed! Not sure how i didn't know about your channel until now. LOVE IT!

@outofthebex

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! I really did not think anyone would care to watch this when i made it, so when someone actually enjoys it I appreciate it that much more! More videos coming soon! Working on one about Teddy Roosevelt and will be having the Nonfiction Friday series back

Honestly, I wish there was enough information about Frances (Fanny), her life seemed super interesting and her life seems super under explored.

This was very interesting. Thank you for posting this.

@outofthebex

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching!!! It was probably crazy of me to make an hour long video on Mary Shelley, but I found it so interesting I couldn't stop myself :)

Love this series! So glad I found your channel. Hopefully you aren't finished with KZread!

Enjoyed your account very much and I'm quite interested in reading her work. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this video, it has being amazingly helpful for getting an overview of this fantastic authors life for a school project

You did a fantastic job in summarizing MWS from a complicated massive amount of material with passion and pathos. And I did appreciate your judgements. I concur with your belief that MWS was Frankenstein having just completed its reading. Thank you for excellent work.

You are amazing. Thank you for making thus to us huge Mary WS fans. Bravo. I sat down immediately and watched. We celebrate her birthday every year.

@outofthebex

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Matthew, thank you very much for the thoughtful comment! I really did not think anyone would care much to watch this when I filmed it and it truly brings me joy when a fellow bookish person enjoys her story as much as I did. I love that you celebrate her birthday every year! Very cool.

Fantastic.... keep up the good work girl 😊

These "Romantics" writers were the Bohemians of this period & were followed by the Pre-Raphaelite Movement ..all parties have been thoroughly covered in history & inspired many modern works.

I enjoyed this video and the way these historical figures are presented as real people who made regrettable mistakes, had feelings, and left a legacy. I have been reading The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly volumes 1 & 2, by Florence A. Thomas Marshall. It has been very enlightening for me , partly because of the era in which it was written. I’ve enjoyed reading excerpts from Mary’s actual letters and seeing how she changed and matured over the years. It is sad that Percy, Mary and Jane/Claire made so many errors in judgment at such young ages. Their social rebellions haunted them for the rest of their lives.

What a rollercoaster! I did know a little bit about Mary Shelley's life but not so much of the drama! It definitely gives another lens to look through her work - the theme of displacement especially. Thank you for putting this together :D I think there was a movie done recently on Mary Shelley's life - I wonder how much they included or excluded?

@outofthebex

5 жыл бұрын

Right?! My emotions were all over the place researching this. Just very conflicting feelings for every situation. Phew! I actually saw that the movie came out myself, but I don't remember hearing about it at the time. Looks like it doesn't have the absolute best ratings... but I still can't help but be curious lol

@hjstackofbooks

5 жыл бұрын

@@outofthebex ah that's a shame, because it is a tragedy that Mary felt displaced basically her entire life - it's something I feel a lot of people today could relate to. Maybe not all situations at once but XD

Doing my own little presentation on Shelley today. Great video!

@outofthebex

3 жыл бұрын

Oh that's exciting! How did it go? :)

Talk about an interesting life! Loved it.

I just discovered your You tube series and really like it! This is 2023 and I am not sure you are still broadcasting but I hope so! Yes, I did know quite a bit about Mary Shelley, especially the time with Shelley, Byron and Jane...I had read that Frankenstein came from a bet that they all had one time when together. I did not know about her tragedies with pregnancies and what became of her after Shelley's death so thank you for that info.

Really like your biography Bex well done ☺️👍

@outofthebex

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind comment :)

I had to do some research on her lol, thanks you have helped me a lot

really enjoyed this! reading Frankenstein for AP english this summer.

@outofthebex

4 жыл бұрын

Maria Golightly i hope you come back and let me know what you think of it! I found it beautiful and tragic

Her life was hard. Her mom died after childbirth. Her stepmother was difficult for everyone around her.

VERY IMFORMATIVE, thanks for the vid.

@outofthebex

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the kind comment. I am so glad you liked it :)

I agree…I’m obsessed with Mary Shelly and Frankenstein the book.

Wow, just...WOW! There are no words.

@outofthebex

5 жыл бұрын

I KNOW!! THE DRAMA IS REAL. lol I seriously still can't believe it all!

Great job! I loved hearing your thoughts. Honest but also empathetic. I really enjoyed this!! Looking forward to watching others!

@outofthebex

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! I really didn't expect anyone to be as interested in her story as I was, so comments like yours make me really happy :)

Thank you for helping me have a timeline and some great facts. I believe she was the monster too.

@outofthebex

4 жыл бұрын

Sherrie Feight my absolute pleasure! I am so happy you enjoyed the video. I have always had a hardtime with timelines myself. Strangely, reading biographies is the only thing that has helped me relate something relevant to a year or decade! And yes! I do think she was the monster. Makes so much sense to me

Percey Shelly was vegan and wrote about the condition and sentience of animals. So I am a fan. The poetry is nice as well.

Wow that's amazing 😍

In 1814, Shelley began a romance with one of her father's political followers, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was already married. Together with her stepsister, Claire Clairmont, she and Percy left for France and travelled through Europe. Upon their return to England, Shelley was pregnant with Percy's child. Over the next two years, she and Percy faced ostracism, constant debt and the death of their prematurely born daughter. They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley's first wife, Harrie. Mary was acturally a monster's bride. Keeping the heart of her husand was absolutly monstrous.

That was a terrific review of Mary Shelley's life. Thank you for your effort to bring these people to life. Keep up the good work! Not "nerdy". Wonderful, young lady. Steve in South Dakota

The idea that Mary idolized her mother reminds me of a story from the novel Blood Meridian. The character called The Judge tells a story about a child whose father was a moral and somewhat wealthy doctor who was murdered by a jealous poor man. The son of the murdered doctor heard endless stories of how great his deceased father was. So the son had an idealized view of his father that he could never live up to even though it was an idealized and incorrect view of the true nature of the deceased man. I see an Interesting comparison in how Mary viewed her mother.

interesting. thank you for your research. dig it. why are your books flipped?

@outofthebex

4 жыл бұрын

I am SO happy you liked! Thank you! When I filmed this I was convinced no one would watch it. It was a bit of a passion project. Thanks for the encouraging comment :) As far as my shelves, I actually made a few videos on this. I hope this one answers your questions: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oq2K0puics_VhM4.html :)

I analised her horoscope this morning before knowing any of these facts before., It is absolutely possible and I believed its true. . Thank you !! ❤

Wow, absolutely excellent! Thank you so much for sharing all this information with us in a comprehensive, human, funny and moving way. I was researching Mary, and luckily found your channel! I had no idea about all the drama and heartache that filled her life. Thank you again for making this video, I was completely enthralled the entire time.

@outofthebex

3 жыл бұрын

I am beyond happy that you enjoyed it! I did not really expect anyone to find this that interesting (other than me XD) when I first made the video so whenever I see a comment like this I feel a little extra happy that someone else enjoyed her story as much as me :)

Thank you so much.

and "Frank"ly......nice one!!

Hello, yes, very interesting, but as you stated , at the same time, very sad. Yes, I watched the movie about Mary Shelley, kind of shows that we as a human race haven’t evolved as much as we originally thought… we are a messed up species on this here planet! When they say: “I remember back in the good old days…..” Well, makes one think… were they really good? lol IDK…. None the less , an interesting history.

Cool video!

@outofthebex

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I thought I knew quite a bit about Shelley, but some of this is surprising to me!

@outofthebex

5 жыл бұрын

And I feel like I only just scratched the surface!

@namelessfaceless5748

4 жыл бұрын

@@outofthebex no you don't, or you would have included it. More over-the-top exaggerations. Sadly, brainwashed man hating liberals can't think for themselves.

19:42 I feel bad for Jane too 😂 Omg that cologne joked got me LOL 24:26 Percy was definitely into poly relationships that's the vibe I'm getting here. I really liked the Mary Shelley movie (2017) and it was all I had in mind when I think about her life in general but after sort of the deep dive I've changed my mind about a lot of things that I admired Percy Shelley for.Also don't you think William Godwin also kind of screwed up a long time and was really messed up in general for disclosing "everything" about his dead wife and he would have probably known that it would lead to a speculation on their entire family based on the stereotypical way the society indulged back then? Like... wasn't that very obvious? 58:07 I don't get it, why Mary Shelley would have thought it was a good idea to again be friends with Lord Byron after all that Jane has to go through and the way they were treated by him...franky every little decision she made were bumpy so I don't know what to say at this point. Also I'm curious, is there any movie adaptation or books depicting Mary Shelley's life after the publication of Frankenstein and the rise of Frankenstein, that would be really fascinating to read,/watch. Cause anyone barely talkes about that phase of her life . P.s-sorry for that unsolicited rambling 😅

@outofthebex

2 жыл бұрын

Unsolicited rambling of this sort is always welcome :) loved reading your thoughts!! It’s interesting to me that they all had such wild ideas about “liberation” early in life and then changed their mind later. No one talks about that much but I think it’s pretty crucial. Who Shelley became and the values she took to heart in her older years were very interesting to me, but it’s always sort of a footnote. I guess that’s because she had figured things out a bit more and the crazy stuff is more fun to hear about

You should listen to E. Michael Jones's interpretation of Mary Shelley's life. The video is called The rise of the horror genre on Canon Press

I totally feel you. And I felt the same as I fell down the rabbit whole studying this characters. It has been strong felt. I almost became insomniac. First Fanny and Harriet suicide killed me. Byron has been the latest I studied and I love Annabella. I am pretty much Byron's wife. Women marry without knowing who they are marrying. It is so easy to lie and play a character. This male characters deserve to be studied. Life back then was similar to many of today. They had letters and books, we have social media. They were promiscuos and adulterous. I have been studying every little character involved with the main characters, every little one I find.

I would describe Mary Shelley as someone who had abandonment issues throughtout her life. That in itself would make her an easy target for users and predators as she would allow back stabbers to stay and keep taking. Being a writer of fiction, she must have also lived in a fictional, almost childish world of her own imagination. On the one hand believing that it was going to be all fun and games with no consequences for running away with her handsome (married) prince. And on the other exaggerating the cruel step-mother impositions she endured. She also appears to have had very poor impulse control, as many a young person has and an adventurous nature. Once she was forced to grow up after Percy's death, as you mentioned, she began to take life much more seriously. Unfortunately for her, the sins of her youth followed her as did further betrayals and abandonments.

The 1800s was the 1960s of the time. There were still people judging others on the morals of the previous stricter decade. There's a lot of restrictions on divorce (almost impossible even if you're rich)... a lot of economic upheaval. Human society seems to go through these cycles even back to the Greeks & Romans. For some years there's all this propriety that just really is a mask because people are people... and then there comes social revolution. My weird experience with studying genealogy has made me believe none of our ancestors were better nor worse than we are when it comes to sexual relationships... they just hid it better.

Thank you for that. Lord Byron died also in that very tragic period. 1824. p.s. I was just trying to help with the summary and times.

@johngray9434

4 жыл бұрын

Jeykll & Jeykll After they left the villa in Geneva they never returned where all the men present during the ghost story session ended up dead. Byron dead in Greece. Polidori dead by his own hand in London. Percy dead in Italy where the only one to live on was Mary Shelley’s monster!

Many thanks for sharing. Not too long for my liking. :) Apparent craziness is one of the main features of humanity. (For the average observer.) The more you read/listen the more outlandish things you will encounter and just hope that it will not be you next time. ;)

How do you know which books are where if you show the pages but not the titles are you ashamed of the books? Do you think they are distracting to the story you tell or why?

If you haven't read the book... You NEED to read the book. Sir Walter Scott's comment is offensive... and probably inflluenced by envy. Mary Shelley's command of language and literary style are profound for such a young writer and, what to speak of the brilliant overall structure, composition and allegorical/poetic completeness and consistency - the prose is ... just exquisitely beautiful, conveying deep, heartfelt emotion in both the story and the characters, and with a kind of intense presentation of detailed observation that really reminds me of J.R.R. Tolkien.

It may have sound crazy when he asked Harriet to join the group, but if she had gone with them the relationship with Mary had soon been over. Mary was often jellous of Claire and Percy, so with Harriet in the equation it had been a turning point in the story. And because Mary's child by adultery died soon after birth they might have considered it a good idea to end the whole thing at that point. Maybe Percy had given Mary money as a compensation and sent her Home. Or Harriet had thought about doing it herself because Percy had a hard time saying no to other people. He was easy to manipulate. He was broken inside. He had been bullied at school. He had broken with his family. Harriet was not of his same class. Her father owned a tavern. His father was a goverment employee. He did not have normal social relationships. Or at least I had seen it like a great opportunity for freedom. When you commit a great sin it becomes turbulent and confusing and you become like a pray of all evil. You must be aware of any opportunity given by the angels to escape and dissolve the situation. God does give you chances to repent and be back to Him. Like Apostle Paul. Also, Harriet did not accept Mary in the equation but she got a new lover who we don't know and was pregnant by him when she killed herself because he either abandoned her, most probably, or because she was ashamed of herself. She needed to be as a doctor with Percy as Percy was having a lot of psychological issues. She had to forget she was the wife and just be her friend and be there until the malaise was over. I think he wanted to be saved by her. He could not put a social limit by himself. He wanted her to put Mary out of the equation. He had beleived in free love but once he put that philosophy into practice he was not quite convinced and he was suffering some kind of despersonalization which is common after breaking a personal taboo. Even if Percy was a sinner she was safer by his side than alone at home. Also if people saw him with two women he could have been submitted by law and dissolve his situation. He had married Harriet in a rush but he had loved a cousin of him first. Harriet made him rush by saying her father and the school made her SUFFER. So he rushed to marry with her after much lettering while he had been expelled from Oxford. She used him. All she saw was his money. She never acted as a spiritual guide as maybe Annabella had done if Byron had been honest with her since day one. Her mind was too simple to help him out. Percy needed a priest, not someone under his age. Godwin offered him sound advice that he did not follow either. The broken relationship with his father lead him to the edge. It broke him. He had to pretend before his family that he was whole. But inside he knew he was a society outcast in the Middle of nowhere. Like when you end college and fail in your career. You have nothing! He wanted to rescue her. Maybe he felt the same with Mary because of Mary suffering at the hands of her step-mother. He had a Moon in Pisces and that made him quite sensitive to feeling and emotion like Saint Therése of Lisieux. That was a disavantage in his highly demanding world unless he became a clergy. Atheism was the worst medicine for him. It made him delusional. Once you have children it is Best not to get married again. Mary's mom should have remained single after Fanny and the story had ended at that point.

why r ur books flipped?

Some of it I had heard. I had a professor in college who told some but not all. One of the oddest things, not shocking but odd - I live 90 miles from another city and airplane, bus, car or train it's a project to plan an overnight trip. In the 1800s with money problems they moved around Europe.

Excellent job, thanks! I don't believe Percy deserved such a capable woman..... (No one reads that re-written 'Frankenstein,' btw!)

Just a fun fact Percy’s daughter’s name is pronounced “I- an-thee” it’s in the Mary Shelley movie☺️☺️☺️ but she’s one of my favourite people who’s ever existed on this planet

@outofthebex

4 жыл бұрын

Oh. My. Golly. THANK YOU. I filmed this forever ago but honestly the pronunciation of this name still haunts me.

@namelessfaceless5748

4 жыл бұрын

@@outofthebex forever ago.... Lol millenial speak is so shallow. You exaggerate EVERYTHING.

@moonthunderstormsstarlight7022

2 жыл бұрын

@@namelessfaceless5748 I agree 1000% with you she overexaggerated EVERYTHING for those likes and KZread $$$.

Godwin and Wollstonecraft did advocate a kind of free love (or at least freedom of choice) in place of marriage as duty. He is after all considered the father of anarchy, as a construct. So for him to then cut off his daughter for embodying the ideals he and Wollstonecraft wrote about and supposedly advocated… it is a little harsh and certainly hypocritical. Mary Junior and Percy Shelley bonded over her parents writings. They may have been young idiots but she was certainly living as she thought her mother would have (and did) according to Mary senior’s writings and to her own life story

chamonix the glaciers , the montagnes ,she didn t like it ,she was the monster ,frankenstein the doc was her dad !! great story njoylife

Very insightful tks

@outofthebex

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for commenting! This video was so long I honestly thought no one would bother to watch it. Thanks for taking the time to nerd out with me!

@namelessfaceless5748

4 жыл бұрын

@@outofthebex I think you meant propagandize

Good video about Mary Shelley by a VERY attractive, articulate young lady ( I like her long brown hair ! ). I did a school book report on Mary Shelley either in 1979 or 1980. Got an A- on it too. Two years ago I found a paperback copy of Frankenstein at a "free books" bin at a local bookstore. Haven't read the classic since I was 17 (1980). I enjoyed even more the 1970's novel FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND.

Ian is pronounced Eeann or Eyeann. Short for Brian without the br

@outofthebex

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

frakenstein is my favourite mary shelley story

Don’t know what Godwin was so upset about. Mary and Percy and Jane were just living out the philosophy he espoused.

@outofthebex

2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating isn't it? They all seemed to change their mind about the free love ideals later in life

You look like Mary Shelley!

@outofthebex

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that too! Kinda spooky, huh?

Why don't you have any photographs of books lying on top of cloth on your instagram? All joking aside, I'm about to watch this video. Mary Shelley♍ is fascinating, thanks.

The Mother of Science Fiction My favorite genre

I am loving this, because you resemble Mary Shelley in her youth. So this is like Mary saying let's get real about all this 😉

@outofthebex

2 жыл бұрын

hahaha! Thank you so much! I noticed the resemblance too and thought it was kind of funny. Glad it wasn't all in my head :P

not the father of Mary being prob the firsrt anarchist ever💀

you are forgetting that Mary and Percy married that quicky BC of the children of Percy and his former wife. To get custody of the children so that they are not untaken care of

What was wrong with Jane trying to have a relationship with Byron?

@johngray9434

4 жыл бұрын

Ronny T Nothing!...apart from the fact that she was sleeping with Mary’s husband at the same time! They say Percy was also extremely ‘close’ with Byron in an age where free love appears to have had very few boundaries in the Shelley household .

Why are all your books backwards?

@outofthebex

3 жыл бұрын

SORCERY. Um, honestly just personal preference. I did make a video about it awhile back if you're really curious. There is a method to the madness. Thanks for watching my video!

I am related to her not lying

Totally agree with your principled observations: I believe that the weight of culpability lies upon her father’s ladder faire attitude and Percy’ s total lack of character and self-indulgence.

@danetteperez3863

3 жыл бұрын

Correction: lassez!

Percy Shelley was irresponsible and Mary running off with him was a mistake. She was likely malnourished which would be why most of her children died young. Percy and his companions might have been drunk or on drugs when boat capsized so not a surprise they would wash up on shore dead. Frankenstein was republished many times, also as comic book and illustrated versions and Thomas Edison made short film in 1910, Universal more than one in 1930's and later, spinoffs of Dracula and Frankenstein in 1950's Billy the kid vs Dracula, Jesse James mets Frankenstein's daughter. 1966 The Munsters with Franken monster as father married to Dracula's daughter, Hammer Films in 1960's and 1970's Frankenstein, and werewolf movies. Sabrina (teenage witch)and the Groovy ghoulies in 1970 with Frankenstein monster, Dracula, Wolfman and Mummy. Monster Squad and Other Frankenstein and monster movies after that.

@saxglend9439

3 жыл бұрын

She wouldn't have written Frankenstein if she hadn't met Percy.

It is funny to hear how shocked you are by this behavior…..it goes on all the time, esp in artistic communities.

😊

It all seems like a series of unfortunate events. How many coincidences?

Kadassians...really? Is that the closest? :P

@outofthebex

4 жыл бұрын

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS lol you're welcome to suggest another comparison XD

Please don't judge the entire society of the 18th century as "everyone" sleeping around, having illegitimate children, and rejecting marriage. This family was the exception not the norm. That is why their relationships were so scandalous to society.

@outofthebex

2 жыл бұрын

Great points! Thank you :)

Pronounced Eye-Ann-thee

That's kind of hypocritical of William Godwin to get all high and mighty about presenting marriage as a vizád to the world 🤏

Hhbddjdheheiej i share 5 astrological placements with Mary

Very entertaining. Shades of 'drunken history'. Love your use of colloquialisms to describe something that happened 200 years ago. Deserve more views. You do come across, though, (in opinion, if not appearance) much like an old churchgoing biddy/conservative. When I read her famous novel it was (and still is) the oldest novel I had read. She wrote it when she was very young and I think a lot of it is childishly fanciful. I, too, was surprised to read that Frankenstein was the name of the scientist and not the monster. I suppose Hollywood has a lot to answer for.

@outofthebex

3 жыл бұрын

I am genuinely not sure if part of this is an insult as a compliment, but I am decidedly taking it as the later! I may be young(ish), but I do have an 83 year old soul and I'm just waiting for my body to catch up to her. Interesting description as to call it, "childishly fanciful." I quite like that. I think there is a certain tone of that to Frankenstein. It is, in many ways, a window to her soul.

I seen your vid in tuned in, & found quite interesting. (4 yrs ago you did this I see, & maybe still doing videos?) Nope. Just checked your page, & last ones 2 yrs ago. Seems you moved on. - Anyway, if you check these anymore? I have to be honest. Girl, you are talking too fast, & not modulating your voice, so gets a little strained to the hearer. I mean no disrespect-not saying I'd do it better! - Voice, public speaking lessons recommend. - Anyway, I will listen on, for vy saucy stuff, too say the least, about my beloved Romantic poets.

Nope. Two-hundred years.

sounds like your average European story to me

Also: Percy’s unusually small heart wouldn’t burn when his body was being cremated on the beach.

Very sensible and good treatement of awkward liberals and radical fantasies...reality check, as you say !

To assume he still has all the agency and initially write off a wife as if she is some generic inatimate object is kind of taking away her power and agency. His wife could of been just as radical as the rest of them, the real question is their personal relationship dynamic... but than he leaves her with kids which is a super super huge dick move

I think you had/have the wrong idea of how ppl are.

You oddly look a lot like Mary Shelley !

@outofthebex

3 жыл бұрын

Caro B dude. I thought the same thing. Freaky, huh?

@carob3323

3 жыл бұрын

@@outofthebex Yeah, that's amazing! As soon as I started watching you, I couldn't stop looking at you thinking that you look exactly like portraits of young Mary that I've seen! And there you are, explaining her story in such intricate details and empathising with her (understandably) ! Congrats on this video, BTW! I wrote my PhD thesis on Mary Shelley 20 years ago, so I would know, and everything you said is very accurate.