“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

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English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, … 1797–1851

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