451 Mary Shelley
The History of Literature
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The Power of a Girl's Mind
Mary grew up believing that it was not just possible, but almost something like a duty to carry out her mother's vision of what it was possible for a woman to be. She was sent away to study with a radical family and when she returned, she was full of strong views of her own. By this time, she was 16 now, the poet Percy Bish Shelley, a few years older than Mary, and married, had begun visiting William Godwin because of his political views. On one of these visits, he and Mary Shelley had proclaimed their love for one another. In a sublime and rapturous moment quote unquote, she confessed that she felt the same for him,. And either
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