Romantic Writers

This writer accidentally created the science fiction genre when they were 17 and kept a heart on their desk.

• Charlotte Bronte

• Mary Shelley

• Percy Shelley

• Emily Bronte

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This writer was sickly as a child and his mother used to tell him scary stories to keep him entertained, and his most famous novel took him 7 years to complete and was not popular until after his death.

• Victor Hugo

• Bram Stoker

• Thomas Hardy

• Percy Shelley

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This writer felt that one should accept their fate and was in an age gap relationship with his second wife. His novels focus on women and their various searches for love with nature as a backdrop.

• Thomas Hardy

• Victor Hugo

• Percy Shelley

• Lord Byron

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This person wrote "The Necessity of Atheism" and was expelled from Oxford for it. He engaged in an illicit affair with the creator of the science fiction and wrote the famous poem "Ozymandias."

• Percy Shelley

• Mary Shelley

• Charlotte Bronte

• Lord Byron

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The author of "She Walks in Beauty" - very much like he walked his bear around in college with his clubfoot. Famous for their satirical writings and a Greek War Hero!

• Percy Shelley

• Lord Byron

• Thomas Hardy

• Victor Hugo

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This author wrote about France's socio/political struggles and lead the French Romantic Movement. You might remember the popular Disney movie based on one of his works, or "Can You Hear The People Sing?"

• Thomas Hardy

• Percy Shelley

• Victor Hugo

• Lord Byron

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This author received multiple proposal requests and their most popular novel's topic is about an orphan woman who must manage life on her own despite a "mad woman in the attic."

• Emily Bronte

• Charlotte Bronte

• Percy Shelley

• Mary Shelley

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This novelist has a famous sister who wrote a novel about two lovers who were raised together as brother and sister. This novelist died from TB.

• Charlotte Bronte

• Mary Shelley

• Emily Bronte

• Thomas Hardy

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