Her lyrical, rhythmic poems are bold and unconventional, employing iambic trimeter and tetrameter and punctuated by dashes.
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)īrilliant nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson was a phenom, writing almost 1,800 poems, of which only ten were published while she was alive. Dalloway, contemplated suicide-which sadly was the cause of Woolf’s death in 1941. Tragedies also marked Woolf’s life: The death of her mother to rheumatic fever in 1895 when Woolf was thirteen led to her first breakdown, which was exacerbated once her father died later in 1904. Dalloway, Orlando, and To the Lighthouse, wherein which her visionary imagination, nonlinear plots, and stream-of-consciousness literary style shone through. In it, she declares, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” Her story also encompasses mental illness, a staggering impact on twentieth-century modernism, and her feminist oeuvre, namely the oft-quoted extended essay A Room of One’s Own. Though beautifully memorialized by Nicole Kidman in the film The Hours, modernist writer Virginia Woolf’s life was far more layered than a cinematic slice of life could portray. It might be unsurprising that innovative thinking came naturally-Shelley’s mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, who authored the seminal A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, one of the first texts on feminist philosophy. Many literature scholars consider Frankenstein to be the first work of science fiction ever written, with Shelley launching the genre. Its true power, however, echoes throughout an entire genre of pop culture that the novel spawned. Shelley published the iconic, critically praised work anonymously in 1818. It inspired quiet nineteen-year-old Shelley, who seldom took center stage at these intellectual salons, to write Frankenstein, the story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a murderous, existential angst-ridden monster. Byron proposed a dare: to challenge the writers to pen a ghost story superior to the ones they had just read. Shelley conceived of her Gothic horror novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus on a dare: One rainy evening, her and Lord Byron’s occult-obsessed clique gathered to tell ghost stories.
Tragedy consumed the visionary writer’s life, from the suicide of her sister to the deaths of three of her children. It’s no wonder London-born writer Mary Shelley is considered one of the original cool goth kids-she was a little.
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