Albertus is also mentioned, along with Agrippa and Paracelsus, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which his writings influence a young Victor Frankenstein.

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Albertus Magnus is referred to as one of Victor Frankenstein's chosen readings.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Many writers and historians recently have stated Aldini was an inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein due to his many public experimentations of bio-electric Galvanism.

The most famous of these assertions is by the History Channel in their " True Horror " series ( produced by Hardy Pictures in 2009 ) which states Aldini specifically as one of the sources for Mary Shelley's novel.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ; or, the Modern Prometheus ( 1818 ) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period.

This occasion was productive of both Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) and Polidori's The Vampyre ( 1819 ).

Mary Shelley's novel, though clearly influenced by the Gothic tradition, is often considered the first science fiction novel, despite the omission in the novel of any scientific explanation of the monster's animation and the focus instead on the moral issues and consequences of such a creation.

The Gothic tradition continued in the 19th century, in such works as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, the works of Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1890 ), and Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1897 ).

Victor in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein manifests hubris in his attempt to become a great scientist by causing life through technological means, but eventually regrets this previous desire.

Bride hearkened back to an episode from Mary Shelley's original novel in which the Monster promises to leave Frankenstein and humanity alone if Frankenstein makes him a mate.

) Brian Aldiss has argued that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) was the first work of science fiction.

Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.

One of the defining classical works of horror, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, is the first fully realized work of science fiction, where the manufacture of the monster is given a rigorous science-fictional grounding.

Moral Orel is another stop motion based show, along with Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, both created by Dino Stamatopoulos.

* January 1 – Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published.

This gives rise to two classic Gothic narratives, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and many short stories by Edgar Allan Poe had a formidable impact.

The novel expresses Mary Shelley's pain at the loss of her community of the " Elect ", as she called them, and Lionel Verney has been seen as an outlet for her feelings of loss and boredom following their deaths and the deaths of her children.

The Last Man received the worst reviews of all of Mary Shelley's novels: most reviewers derided the very theme of lastness, which had become a common one in the previous two decades.

" The Return of the Repressed: Reading Mary Shelley's The Last Man ".

" The ' Abyss of the Present ' and Women's Time in Mary Shelley's The Last Man ".

* Bennett, Betty T. " Radical Imaginings: Mary Shelley's The Last Man ".

Mary Shelley's Early Novels: " This Child of Imagination and Misery ".

* 1818 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States ( d. 1882 )

Mary Shelley employs the epistolary form in her novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ).

One of the first writers of science fiction was Mary Shelley, whose novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ) dealt with the asexual creation of new life, a re-telling of the Adam and Eve story.

He was the eldest of four surviving children ; his younger siblings were George ( 1797 – 1841 ), Thomas ( 1799 – 1818 ), and Frances Mary " Fanny " ( 1803 – 1889 ).

In particular, he was regarded in the Romantic era as embodying the lone genius whose efforts to improve human existence could also result in tragedy: Mary Shelley, for instance, gave The Modern Prometheus as the subtitle to her novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ).

She was the second oldest of seven children — Guelma Penn ( 1818 – 1873 ), Hannah Lapham ( 1821 – 1877 ), Daniel Read ( 1824 – 1904 ), Mary Stafford ( 1827 – 1907 ), Eliza Tefft ( 1832 – 1834 ), and Jacob Merritt ( 1834 – 1900 ).

* July 16 – Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States ( b. 1818 )

Mary Shelley states in the introduction that in 1818 she discovered, in the Sibyl's cave near Naples, a collection of prophetic writings painted on leaves by the Cumaean Sibyl.

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ), as another important Gothic novel as well as being an early example of science fiction.

* Lady Emily Mary FitzGerald ( 1752 – 1818 ), married Charles Coote, Baron Coote of Coolony and Earl of Bellamont.

Four of his daughters ( of whom the youngest, Mary, married Charles Cowden Clarke ) were gifted singers ; but the most famous was Clara Novello ( 1818 – 1908 ), whose beautiful high soprano and pure style made her one of the greatest vocalists, in opera as well as in oratorio and on the concert stage, from 1833 onwards.

They had five children: Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr. ( 1809 – 1881 ), named after his friend and expedition partner ; William Preston Clark ( 1811 – 1840 ); Mary Margaret Clark ( 1814 – 1821 ); George Rogers Hancock Clark ( 1816 – 1858 ), named after Clark's older brother ; and John Julius Clark ( 1818 – 1831 ), named after his oldest brother Jonathan and Clark's wife.

After his return the following year, on August 5, 1818, Lisa married the widow Mary Hempstead Keeny, a sister of his friend, the attorney Edward Hempstead.

After his return from that year's expedition, on August 5, 1818 Lisa married the widow Mary Hempstead Keeny ( a sister of Edward Hempstead ).

His life of Mary, Queen of Scots, was first published in 1818.

Brown was influenced by these writers and in turn exerted an influence on them and their younger studiers, for example in Godwin's later novels, or in the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, who reread Brown as she wrote her novels Frankenstein ; or, The Modern Prometheus ( 1818 ) and The Last Man ( 1826 ).

Mary Ann ( née Todd ) Lincoln ( December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882 ) was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and was First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865.

Mary Butters ( 1807 – 1839 ), also referred to as the " Carnmoney Witch ", was put on trial for murder in March 1818.

He met Mary Riddle whom he married on December 10, 1818, and the couple had two children.

It may be significant, however, that she was taken ill at about the same time — according to Mary Shelley's journal she was ill on 27 December — and that her journal of June 1818 to early March 1819 has been lost.