Mary Shelley Quotes
We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.
Shelley, Mary. Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843. Edward Moxon, 1844.
He was fascinated by the effect of American freedom on the way Americans led their personal lives. In Europe, a man’s occupation was tht of his father and rarely, if ever, changed. He lived in the same community for most of his life and often in the same house. The laws and possibilities of America allowed great exploration and risk taking if individuals explored possibilities.
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.
