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Mary Shelley (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

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What Do You Know About Mary Shelley?

Mary Shelley is best known for writing what is often regarded as the first sci-fi novel, Frankenstein. Both of Mary Shelley's parents were famous intellectuals of their time. Her dad was a political philosopher and her mother was an early feminist called Mary Wollstonecraft. She grew up with this guilt that she had somehow been responsible for her mother's death. How would you cope with that kind of childhood, Lauren? If you'd been raised in a household with philosophers.

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