{"title":"The World a Secret — Mary Shelley","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-secret-world-shelley-dark-romanticism-t-shirt","title":"The Secret World — Shelley Dark Romanticism T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eShelley published \"Frankenstein\" anonymously in 1818. This line is Victor Frankenstein’s — the boy whose hunger to understand the world is the engine of the whole tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 first edition), Ch. 2 — Victor Frankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The world was to me a secret, which I desired to discover.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShelley wrote it through the voice of Victor — a boy consumed by the need to understand what the world was made of, and what could be made from it. But she knew the feeling herself. She began \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e at 18, during the summer of 1816, when volcanic ash from an Indonesian eruption blocked the sun across Europe, turned summer to grey, and left her stranded at a villa on Lake Geneva with nowhere to go but inward. The ghost story she started that week became the founding text of science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe typography doesn’t illustrate the quote — it performs it. The opening clause arrives softly, the way a qualification does; then the pivot lifts; then the final word lands with the full weight of the sentence behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore Shelley: the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/therefore-shelley-frankenstein-1818-t-shirt\"\u003eTherefore Tee\u003c\/a\u003e. Browse the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/mary-shelley\"\u003efull Mary Shelley collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Tee\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% combed and ring-spun cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFabric weight: 4.2 oz\/yd² (142 g\/m²)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRetail fit, true to size\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSide-seamed construction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMachine washable, cold water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuoteiac logo on the left sleeve\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It’s For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe one who chose the stranger path specifically because they didn’t know where it went\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who kept reading a subject after the assignment ended — just to find out what was actually true\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe quiet one who reads past the last page to find the bibliography, and is actually building something\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWear your curiosity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMary Wollstonecraft Shelley, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1797–1851, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrote \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e at 18 — published at 20, anonymously, because her name would have closed minds before they’d read a word\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaughter of philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who died days after her birth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInvented science fiction — the mad scientist, the created life, the moral weight of knowledge all start here\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSize Chart (Bella + Canvas)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eSize\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eWidth (in)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth\u003eLength (in)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eXS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.5\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eM\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eXL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e31\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2XL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e32\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"XS","offer_id":42641031200862,"sku":"1861552_21593","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"S","offer_id":42641031233630,"sku":"1861552_21594","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"M","offer_id":42641031266398,"sku":"1861552_21595","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"L","offer_id":42641031299166,"sku":"1861552_21596","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"XL","offer_id":42641031331934,"sku":"1861552_21597","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2XL","offer_id":42641031364702,"sku":"1861552_21598","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/unisex-staple-t-shirt-vintage-black-front-6a44495b344ac.png?v=1782860132"}],"url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/collections\/shelley-secret-world.oembed","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}