I was speaking in general, but I'll try to take a look at the movie at some point, considering I've been assigned to read Frankenstien 3 times!
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I was speaking in general, but I'll try to take a look at the movie at some point, considering I've been assigned to read Frankenstien 3 times!
The reason Jane Austen looks kinda weird is that (I think) there weren't any portraits made of her. All they know of what she looked like is two sketches made by her sister, and they do admittedly look weird.
Last week, my brit lit instructor showed us six different portraits of Lord Byron. They all looked like different people, maybe closely related but different. Unless we've got a photograph, I think it's hard to really get a true sense of what they looked like.
By the way Crisaor, I found something interesting about Mary Shelly concerning what you said about him always rewriting her stuff. I've had to re-read Frankenstien for a class only the 1818 version this time. In Volume 2 Ch. 7, Delacey's name is misspelled. The footnote that my text gives is:
"The change in spelling, which remains consistent from this point on, raises the possibility that Shelly took over the job of proofreading with this chapter. Mary sent him the second parcel of proof on 24 September 1817, with a note giving him 'carte blanche to make what alterations you please.'"
I guess because she wrote it when she was so young, that she probably didn't have enough faith in herself to write a good enough novel.
Well anyway, thought you'd be interested.
She was only 20, having barely written something in her whole life, while her husband was a famous poet. Plus, it was a time when the woman would do anything the husband commanded. I guess that was logical after all.
Thanks for that.
Hands down, its Flannery O'Conner.
Was she so young??? Damn and I still haven't written a great novel... actually, not even a bad one... :DQuote:
Originally posted by crisaor
She was only 20, having barely written something in her whole life, while her husband was a famous poet. Plus, it was a time when the woman would do anything the husband commanded. I guess that was logical after all.
Thanks for that.
I'm going to read Frankestein soon, but I imagined this Shelley lady to be much oldder when she wrote that...
She wasn't. And she had already lost a child at that age.
hm, kinda sad. :(
Judging who's the ugliest author is as valid as most kind of value judgements about writers. It would be a matter of opinion. Sam Johnson was pretty gross. And that Moany Lisa - she's no oil painting!