Mary Shelley Quotes
His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.
Stephen and his contemporaries did not anticipate the advent of radio and television which elevated the conversationalist’s ability to have an audience. Today, many conversationalists host media shows and serve as critics and pundits. Many are far better recognized than most politicians and speechmakers.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.