“We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed.”
About Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
30 August 1797–1 February 1851
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on 30 August 1797 and dead on 1 February 1851, occupied an extraordinary position in British literary history from the beginning of her life. She was the daughter of two of the most provocative writers of the late eighteenth century: the political…