“We visited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden, and the field on which the patriot fell” (p.117). John Hampden served in Parliament and resisted King Charles’s taxes and plans. He had an active role against the King in the Civil War in the early 1640s. Mary and Percy Shelley visited Hampden’s tomb in 1817, about a century and a half after Hampden’s death. In the novel, Frankenstein, Victor and Henry Clerval go on a long journey to different parts of Europe. They went to Hampden’s tomb “a century and a half” after these events had occurred. It seems as though many things that Shelley’s characters in her book do and see had been done or seen by the Shelleys.
“John Hampden.” English Upenn. 30 Aug. 2009. http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/People/hampden.html
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yes -- and why would she do this? What could be her ulterior motive here? consider this comment throughout your concordance -- several entries seem one sentence away from solid -- I like how you embed the quote into your commentary -- really nice work there
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