Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley — a remark

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“At first I thought but of a few pages—a short tale; but my husband urged me to develop the idea at greater length.”

Describing how a brief idea grew into a major work · 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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