451 Mary Shelley
The History of Literature
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The End of Mary Godwin
At age 16, Mary Godwin attracted the attention of Percy Bish Shelly. He was married at the time, but he fell in love with her as a woman capable of independent thought. When she was twenty five, her father William Godwin wrote the following: Frankenstein is the most wonderful work to have been written at 20 years of age that I have ever heard of. If you cannot be independent, who should be? End quote.
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