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The strange life of Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (nee Godwin) (1797-1851) http://gamesandtehories.blogspot.com/p/the-strange-life-of-mary-shelley.html Kimmo Huosionmaa Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the writer of the book “Frankenstein” or “The modern Prometheus”. This woman was one of the first female horror-writers, and the book, what she was written is still in the lockers of the libraries. In her young ages, she faced many deaths, and her husband, who was five years elder than Mary, was died in 1822 by accident when his boat fold near Sardinia. The suicide was the fate of the Mary Shelley's stepsister, and the first wife of her husband also committed suicide. Mary's husband wealthy poet Percy Shelley (1792-1822) died in the accident when his Ariel-schooner fold in the Sardinia. Famous writer Mary Shelley was born with the name Mary Godwin in the London 1797, and she died for the brain tumor in the age 53 for the year 1851. There are some rumors, that the brain tumor caused the ultimate productivity...

Caput Mundi: I was in there too: the analyzes of the book "The Tales of Ensign Stål"

Albert Edelfelt's Illustration for the poem "Sven Dufva" (Picture I)       http://kirjabloggaus.blogspot.fi/p/caput-mundi-i-was-in-there-too-analyzes.html Kimmo Huosionmaa Our national writer Johan Ludvig Runeberg used that term in the book named  "The Tales of Ensign Stål". Sometimes I have thought that is this book written in the same purpose, as the "Protocol of the eldest of Zion", what is the most well-known propaganda book, what was written by the political police of Russian Empire. Maybe the "The Tales of Ensign Stål" was also written by the same institution for supporting the emperor's policy in Finland. The "Protocol of the eldest of Zion was written for making the confiscating the property of Jews justified. Maybe the book of Runeberg had the mission to justify the confiscation of the property of Swedish noblemen in Finland.  And maybe he wanted to mention that he was in the same war, as this 1st. Lieutenant,...