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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".



Oval portrait of a woman wearing a shawl and a thin circlet around her head. It is painted on a flax coloured background.
Reginald Easton's miniature of Mary Shelley is allegedly drawn from her death mask. 




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History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817)  Frankenstein (1818)  Matilda (1820)   Valperga (1823)   The Last Man (1826)   The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830)   Lodore (1835)  Falkner (1837)  Rambles in Italy and Germany (1844)  
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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

                                              Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay                                              To mould me Man, did I solicit thee                                              From darkness to promote me? In the summer of 1816, a young, well-educated woman from England traveled with her lover to the Swiss Alps. Unseasonable rain kept them trapped inside their lodgings, where they entertained themselves by reading ghost stories. At the urging of renowned poet Lord Byron, a friend and neighbor, they set their own pens to paper, competing to see who could write the best ghost story. The young woman, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, took the prize, having composed a story creepy enough not only to take its place alongside the old German tales that she and her Alpine companions had been reading, but also to become a bestseller in her time and a Gothic classic that still resonates with readers almost two centuries later. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
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