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* Her RI r was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary
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* Godwin provided his daughter v cai education, encouraging her to adhere to his liberal political theories. |
In 1814, Mary Godwin began a romantic relationship with one of ‘her father's political followers, the married Percy Bysshe_
_ Shelley: Together they left for France and travelled 1 through Europe; upon their return to England, Mary was pregnant with
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» Over the ne xt two years, she and Percy faced ostracism, constant i debt, and 4 the death of their prematurely ‘bom born daughter. —
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* In1816, the couple famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John V William Polidori, and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, _
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F. follows the monster, who leaves traces, actually helps the doctor to find him. There are no fights and the story ends
with the death of F. and the image of the creature, crying by his side. They fuse one into the other. So the structure K
the pursuit is the frame of the novel.
