Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley — a remark

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“The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”

Reflecting on the lasting force of early friendship and memory · Introduction to Frankenstein, 1831

About Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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…

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