Mary Shelley Quotes


How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!


Citations

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.

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Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
  • Born: August 30, 1797
  • Died: February 1, 1851
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Writer

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.