"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye..."

Frankenstein, 1818

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born #OTD in 1797. She met the young Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812 and eloped with him to France in July 1814. After her husband’s death in 1822, she returned to England and devoted herself to publicizing his writings and to educating their only surviving child, Percy.

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