Talk:Mary Shelley

Latest comment: 2 months ago by Martinevans123 in topic Semi-protected edit request on 21 August 2024
Featured articleMary Shelley is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2024

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5th paragraph, "Until the 1970s", should perhaps be changed to "until the 1850's" or "For the rest of her life", since Mary died in 1853. 2600:8800:3984:8200:BD86:B1D7:2E05:E45 (talk) 23:50, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Not done: I don't see a correlation between the time of her death and what she has been known for historically by researchers and scholars. —Sirdog (talk) 00:56, 5 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Lake Geneva and Frankenstein

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What were the other three stories?Drsruli (talk) 22:01, 28 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 21 August 2024

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Change "The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumour which killed her at the age of 53." to "The last decade of her life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumour that ultimately led to her death at the age of 53.

Why: The current version leads the reader into a garden path, making them wonder how could a person die twice? Once at the age of 53 and then again at another age, even if momentarily, it does not provide any other advantages over the edited version. Meannwhile the edited version would eliminate this garden path by adding the word "ultimately" TheCosmos999 (talk) 14:56, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ⸺(Random)staplers 20:25, 21 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
I see no garden path. She died once, aged 53, from a brain tumour. Martinevans123 (talk) 08:46, 29 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

About the intro

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Interesting: the Percy Shelley page intro has 3 paragraphs of literary history and then 1 paragraph of personal history. The Mary Shelley page intro has 3 paragraphs of personal history and 2 of literary history.

I think the personal history in Mary's introduction could very easily be condensed - there's a lot of detail there. Then perhaps the long literary history paragraph could be expanded out into 2 paragraphs? Kansaikiwi (talk) 08:33, 29 August 2024 (UTC)Reply