Mary Shelley's portrait by Richard Rothwell , shown at the Royal Academy in 1840, accompanied by lines from Percy Shelley 's poem The Revolt of Islam calling her a "child of love and light" . Reginald Easton's miniature of Mary Shelley is allegedly drawn from her death mask.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. Marry Shelley Frankenstein (1818) The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that f...
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