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Mary Shelley, born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. .

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Top 5 Poems

1	The bubble floats
2	Full little knowest thou
3	or what should I do here
4	Thy form is here indeed

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Full little knowest thou

or what should I do here

The bubble floats

Thy form is here indeed

Articles

Articles about Mary Shelley or articles that mention Mary Shelley.

The Self-Identity Problem in Frankenstein

A Mad Scientist, Mad Generals, and a Doomsday Machine: The Iconography of Science Fiction in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove"

More Harm Than Good? The Danger of Science and Technology in Ray Bradbury's “There Will Come Soft Rains” and Henry Kuttner's “Private Eye”

Quotes

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Quote Left I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine. A rage, the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge in the other.
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Quote Left My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
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Quote Left Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.
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Quote Left Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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Quote Left It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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