Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men & Women (Vol. 1-5): Biographies of Essential Literary Figures 14th-19th Century
By Mary Shelley
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Contents:
Vol. 1: Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France (Part. I):
Montaigne
Rabelais
Corneille
Rochefoucauld
Molière
La Fontaine
Pascal
Madame de Sévigné
Boileau
Racine
Fénélon
Vol. 2: Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France (Part. II):
Voltaire
Rousseau
Condorcet
Mirabeau
Madame Roland
Madame de Staël.
Vol. 3: Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain and Portugal (Part. I):
Dante
Petrarch
Boccaccio
Lorenzo de' Medici, &c.
Bojardo
Berni
Ariosto
Machiavelli
Vol. 4: Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain and Portugal (Part. II):
Galileo
Guicciardini
Vittoria Colonna
Guarini
Tasso
Chiabrera
Tassoni
Marini
Filicaja
Metastasio
Goldoni
Alfieri
Monti
Ugo Foscolo
Vol. 5: Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain and Portugal (Part. III):
Boscan
Garcilaso de la Vega
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
Luis de Leon
Herrera
Saa de Miranda
Jorge de Montemayor
Castillejo
The early dramatists
Ercilla
Cervantes
Lope de Vega
Vicente Espinel; Esteban de Villegas
Gongora
Quevedo
Calderon
Early poets of Portugal
Camoens
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born in 1797, the daughter of two of the leading radical writers of the age. Her mother died just days after her birth and she was educated at home by her father and encouraged in literary pursuits. She eloped with and subsequently married the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, but their life together was full of hardship. The couple were ruined by disapproving parents and Mary lost three of her four children. Although its subject matter was extremely dark, her first novel Frankenstein (1818) was an instant sensation. Subsequent works such as Mathilda (1819), Valperga (1823) and The Last Man (1826) were less successful but are now finally receiving the critical acclaim that they deserve.
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