Mary Shelley for Graves-Hume Public Library

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Graves-Hume Public Library | Mendota

Historical Women of Letters
Publisher/HostHistorical Women of Letters
Mary Shelley for Graves-Hume Public Library
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Mary Shelley was the daughter of social revolutionaries William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, wife of romantic poet Percy Shelly, and mother of Frankenstein and his monster. But beneath the sweeping romantic tale of love unbound by societal convention and a life of travel, is the truth of the life of Mary Shelley; abandoned, disowned, and betrayed, wounded by the deaths of husband and children, she was besieged by creditors and so-called friends.
We call on Mary Shelley in the spring of 1848. Mary is financially secure at last, her most recent book has been well received, and her only living son is on the verge of marriage.
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Graves-Hume Public Library, 1401 W Main St, Mendota, IL 61342-2500, United States,Mendota, Illinois

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