451 Mary Shelley
The History of Literature
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Mary Shelley's Life
Shelley's own life is not such a cautionary tale as that might suggest. She was afflicted with sadness, sometimes of her own doing, but mostly not. Mostly she was a victim of society and those around her at least a little. And much more, a victim of the medicine known at the time - particularly childbirth. Science might still not know how to create life by pumping electricity into human tissue,. But it leads us to understand how to preserve lives created the old fashioned way.
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