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Mary Shelley
(30 Aug 1797 - 1 Feb 1851)
English author , (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) wrote several novels, mostly forgotten except for one that remains most famous, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). Her husband was the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Science Quotes by Mary Shelley (2)
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.
— Mary Shelley
Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (1897), 31.
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You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
— Mary Shelley
Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (1897), 19.
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