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  You'll want to decide with your group of researchers what area of expertise you'll want to gain.  Below is a series of links that will lead you into the worlds of the authors you've read and will be studying.  When you find information that is important to you, email your partner with you findings. 

William Wordsworth

  Take a tour of the lake district.  This is the area where William Wordsworth spent most of his life.  (http://website.lineone.net/~beautifulengland/lakes.htm)
From there examine some links to other Web Sites that give information on the Romantic Movement.
(http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Romantic/index.html). By clicking on the photo of Wordsworth's home at Dove Cottage (upper left), you'll go there.  Click on his portrait (left) to read about his biography.

Oscar Wilde

Follow a slide show about Oscar Wilde's life and times by clicking here at Oscariana.  (http://www.jonno.com/oscariana/1A.html).  Next, you can explore the comprehensive set of links covering aestheticism, Wilde's biography, and other related information.  Click on the photo to the left and you'll find yourself in a researcher's paradise. (http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/decadence/wilde/wildeov.html).  If you have time, visit Oscar's alma mater Magdalen College in Oxford. (http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/).

Mary Shelley

  Read about the life of Mary Shelley. (http://www.desert-fairy.com/life.shtml).  She is the daughter of an equally famous woman, Mary Wollstonecraft.  Reading about her mother's life and work may bring illumination to your reading of the novel.  (http://www.desert-fairy.com/feminist.shtml).  You may want to look instead at the literary sources of the novel.  (http://www.desert-fairy.com/franken.shtml).  If you do that, you'll most definitely want to read some of Paradise Lost (gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Library/Classic/parlost.txt) by John Milton.  This 17th century poem is the central allusion of  Frankenstein.

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