“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”

— 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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