A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.

In 1816 Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary Shelley visited Geneva and all three were inspired by the scenery in their writings.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

* 1797 – Mary Shelley, English author ( d. 1851 )

The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen.

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.

Byron was also the host of the celebrated ghost-story competition involving himself, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori at the Villa Diodati on the banks of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816.

Guided by the works of authors such as Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley and Charlotte Brontë, the Female Gothic permitted the introduction of feminine societal and sexual desires into Gothic texts.

* 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.

This is usually justified as a second hand account of events as told to credited authors Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley although the general public continues to believe them as fictional.

Wells or the Gothic romances of Mary Shelley, were set in a world that is recognizably that of the author and introduced only a single fantastic element — or at most a fantastic milieu within the author's world, as with Lovecraft or Howard.

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 ).

Mary Shelley wrote a number of science fiction novels including Frankenstein, and is treated as a major Romantic writer.

Wells, and Mary Shelley.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is a seminal text in 19th century discourse about the undead.

* District nursing begins in Liverpool, England, when philanthropist William Rathbone employs Mary Robinson to nurse the sick poor in their own homes.

So Mary can repay the loan, Judy employs her as a clerk at the library where she works.

In the film Mary Poppins, the chimney sweep Bert employs a double negative when he says, " If you don't want to go nowhere ..." Another is used by the bandits in the " Stinking Badges " scene of John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: " Badges?

Mary Poppins also had a very similar attitude while actively encouraging positive imagination ( Susan tends to say things like " Real children don't go hoppity-skip unless they're on drugs "), took children on magical adventures ( Susan does so to teach geography ), introduced children to supernatural creatures ( Susan employs such beings as guest speakers, including her own grandfather ), and had a magic umbrella ( which, while not used as a blunt object, was magical much like Death's scythe ).

* District nursing begins in Liverpool, England, when philanthropist William Rathbone employs Mary Robinson to nurse the sick poor in their own homes.

According to Mary Brosnaham, spokeswoman for Coalition for the Homeless, the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg employs a deliberate policy of " active deterrence ".

By fourteen Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had written two books filled with poems, a brief epistolary novel, and a prose-and-verse romance modeled after Aphra Behn's Voyage to the Isle of Love ( 1684 ).

The governor's move into the so-called `` blue law '' controversy came in the form of a letter to Miss Mary R. Grant, deputy city clerk of Central Falls.

Frustrated with their lack of concern for quality, Chaplin joined forces with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and D. W. Griffith to form a new distribution company — United Artists, established in January 1919.

When the Tzu-Chi Foundation, a Taiwanese Buddhist organisation, noticed the similarity between this form of Guanyin and the Virgin Mary, the organisation commissioned a portrait of Guanyin and a baby that resembles the typical Roman Catholic Madonna and Child painting.

Before his execution in 1553 by Queen Mary for attempting to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, Dudley had built the new stable block and widened the tiltyard to its current form.

Philosopher Mary Midgley, among others, argues that materialism is a self-refuting idea, at least in its eliminative form.

The Spanish guarded their trade routes jealously, and Mary could not condone illegitimate trade ( in the form of piracy ) because she was married to the King of Spain.

Mary Magdalene's given name Μαρία ( Maria ) is usually regarded as a Latin form of Μαριὰμ ( Mariam ), which is the Greek variant used in Septuagint for Miriam, the Hebrew name for Moses ' sister.

Mary of Bethany ( Judeo-Aramaic מרים, Maryām, rendered Μαρία, Maria, in the Koine Greek of the New Testament ; form of Hebrew מ ִ ר ְ י ָ ם, Miryām, or Miriam, " wished for child ", " bitter " or " rebellious ") is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of John and Luke in the Christian New Testament.

English uses the same oblique form for both ; for example: Mary loves him ( direct object ); Mary sent him a letter ( indirect object ).

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.

" The man united to God was born of Mary ; between God the Logos and the form of a servant a distinction must be drawn.

It was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689 ( or 1688 by Old Style dating ), inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England.

Maria widzi Jana ( Mary sees John ; Jana is the accusative form of Jan )

Shipwrecks, such as Mary Rose, can also be important for archaeology because they can form a kind of accidental time capsule, preserving an assemblage of human artifacts at the moment in time when the ship was lost.

Stone's legacy — of giving form to the aspirations of the emerging consumer culture and of reconciling Modernism with the dynamism of the age — is established in the critical survey, Edward Durell Stone: Modernism's Populist Architect by Mary Anne Hunting, PhD.

Between about 1090 and 1120, the Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene was built inside the walls, and by 1130 the Great Tower was added to form the gatehouse.

While Magic 8 Ball did not exist in its current form until 1950, the functional component was invented by Albert C. Carter, who was inspired by a " spirit writing " device used by his mother, Mary, a Cincinnati clairvoyant.

His scenes of Parisian life, his off-center compositions, his experiments with color and form, and his friendship with several key Impressionist artists — most notably Mary Cassatt and Édouard Manet — all relate him intimately to the Impressionist movement.

Kolbe's influence has found fertile ground in his own Franciscan order, in the form of the Franciscan Friars of Mary Immaculate ( O. F. M. I ), a Franciscan religious order whose rule is influenced by the spirituality of St. Maximilian.

They usually have the form of a cylinder of gold ( although some of the crowns at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum have the form of a gold cube ) with a convex dome on the top with usually some form of cross on a pedestal.