It was summer 1816 when the idea first arrived, during a now-mythic competition between Shelley, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their friend and fellow writer, Lord Byron.
Of course any list of early SFF writers must include Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. Marie de France is hugely influential in the medieval romance genre, which has shaped the works of writers like J.R.R. Bisclavret must then find a way to convince the king to spare his life. A year later, the king goes hunting and his dogs corner Bisclavret in the wilderness. She sends a knight to steal his clothing so Bisclavret is stuck in his wolf shape. His wife, however, is so horrified that she devises a plot to leave Bisclavret.
He asks his wife to keep his clothing safe so he can return to human form. To her shock, Bisclavret reveals that he is a werewolf. His wife, anguished by his disappearances, begs Bisclavret to tell her where he goes.
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Her most famous work is The Lais of Marie de France, a series of short narrative poems, including the story “Bisclavret,” otherwise known as “The Werewolf.”īisclavret is a baron who vanishes without a trace for three days every week. She was the first woman known to write poetic verse in French. Marie de France, born in the year 1160 in what is now France, was a medieval poet.
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