Unknown woman, formerly known as Mary Shelley Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Unknown woman, formerly known as Mary Shelley NPG 1719
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Samuel John Stump
The novelist Mary Shelley was deeply influenced by the writings of her parents Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. When only sixteen, she eloped to the Continent with Percy Bysshe Shelley and married him two years later. In 1816, when they were neighbours of Byron, on the shores of Lake Geneva, Mary began Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus (1818) the tale of an idealistic student who discovers the secret of imparting life to inanimate matter. Contrasting scientific discovery with moral responsibility, Frankenstein,... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.
