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When Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley returned to London in July of 1823, she was ravaged by grief following a string of tragedies. Since 1815, she had endured the deaths of 3 of the 4 children she shared with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. /2
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'More students read the poetry of Christina Rossetti than that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; mention 'Shelley' in a classroom and students are as likely to think of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as the work of her husband, Percy Bysshe.' (@dlbirch1) https://t.co/bDbE4pb6D0
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Today in History 8/30/1797: Mary Shelley was born. Wrote several novels, incl “Frankenstein.” Also a political radical. Father was the #Anarchist philosopher, William Godwin. Mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, writer & #feminist activist. Married romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelly. https://t.co/kV3yjC7t3R