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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Born 1797 in Somers Town · Died in Chester Square

writer, novelist, poet, playwright, essayist · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · associated with British Romanticism

Notable works: The Last Man, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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Frankenstein

From Project Gutenberg e-text #84 (public domain in the USA).

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

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I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

— Spoken by a character · Chapter 10

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