Wollstonecraft–Shelley circle

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The Wollstonecraft–Shelley circle was a close-knit group of late 18th- and early 19th-century radical writers and thinkers centered around Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Percy and Mary Shelley, known for their pioneering ideas on politics, philosophy, and literature.

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instanceOf intellectual circle
literary circle
philosophical circle
radical political circle
associatedPlace Italy
Lake Geneva
London, England
surface form: London

Skinner Street, London
Somers Town
surface form: Somers Town, London

Villa Diodati
country United Kingdom
fieldOfWork feminist theory
literature
philosophy
political theory
hasCentralTheme atheism
education reform
feminist thought
free love
individual liberty
political philosophy
radical politics
romantic literature
social justice
hasIdeology anti-clericalism
rationalism
republicanism
romantic radicalism
hasMainFigures Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Godwin
hasMember Charles Clairmont
Claire Clairmont
Fanny Imlay
Godwin family
Harriet Westbrook Shelley
John Polidori
Leigh Hunt
Lord Byron
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shelley family
Thomas Jefferson Hogg
William Godwin
influenced Gothic fiction
Romantic literature
early feminist theory
modern political thought
influencedBy Enlightenment philosophy
French Revolution
radical dissenting traditions
language English
notableEvent 1816 gathering at Villa Diodati
notableWorkProducedWithinCircle A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Prometheus Unbound
Queen Mab
The Cenci
timePeriod early 19th century
late 18th century

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Fanny Imlay notableFamily Wollstonecraft–Shelley circle