Thursday, July 26, 2012

Hipsters Throughout History (Part II)

Posted by on Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:55 PM

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Mary Shelley

Shelley’s most famous character is a great early example of the “mash-up.” Indeed, Shelley herself is a great early example of a progressively raised, Park Slope hipster kid: her dad was the philosopher William Godwin (who came up with “Godwin’s Law” on the Internet) and proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Predictably, she ran off to Europe with a DJ poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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