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Mary Shelley's Secret Life
There is one piece of key information that Percy hasn't shared. Do you want to guess what it is? Oh, they're not related, are they? Maybe that's worse. He's married. Mary does know this. Everyone knows that he is married. But it's sort of part of his philosophy that, you know, what is marriage? One of those boys. To be fair to him, marriage was this incredibly oppressive institution to women. They were basically considered the property of their husbands. And so all of this group were against marriage. But you can't help but feel that with Shelley, it's quite convenient.