Read/listen to Frankenstein chapters 17-19. See the top of Week 1 for link to audio and text of Frankenstein.
William Godwin, Mary's father, wrote the following to his daughter about her novel:
He was obviously proud of her and that she was an independent and thinking woman.
Read Frankenstein chapters 17-19. Read with a ink pen, highlighter and post it notes with you. Be sure to use them. There will be discussion forums coming about these chapters. Be prepared to write intelligently about these chapters.
The picture above is a piece of the original manuscript of Frankenstein showing Mary Shelly's handwriting and revisions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley#cite_note-107
[Frankenstein] is the most wonderful work to have been written at twenty years of age that I ever heard of. You are now five and twenty. And, most fortunately, you have pursued a course of reading, and cultivated your mind in a manner the most admirably adapted to make you a great and successful author. If you cannot be independent, who should be?"
He was obviously proud of her and that she was an independent and thinking woman.
Read Frankenstein chapters 17-19. Read with a ink pen, highlighter and post it notes with you. Be sure to use them. There will be discussion forums coming about these chapters. Be prepared to write intelligently about these chapters.
The picture above is a piece of the original manuscript of Frankenstein showing Mary Shelly's handwriting and revisions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley#cite_note-107
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