ìMary Wollstonecraft was made more vulnerable to attach by
her own unconventional personal life. Her lack of orthodoxy
was encouraged by association with such individuals as
William Godwin (whom she married shortly before her
death), Thomas Paine, and other radical thinkers of the period,
though she did not necessarily accept or follow their views
of society.î Robert B. Downs, 1983, Books That Changed The
World, pages 240-241.
Such was the mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley,
1818 author of Frankenstein
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