Mary Shelley

30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851

British novelist, biographer and travel writer, author of Frankenstein, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft.

 

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

 

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

 

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