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    Valperga: "It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."
    Valperga: "It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."
    Valperga: "It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."
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    Valperga: "It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."

    By Mary Shelley

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    Born in 1797, her Mary Shelley’s mother died when she was only 11 days old. Mary was then raised by her Father, who remarried when she was four, and thereafter the young Mary had a liberal but informal upbringing. At 17 she began the relationship with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley which was the bedrock of her life; although society viewed the unmarrieds somewhat differently. It was in this relationship that she nurtured and edited Shelley’s verse and wrote, at 21, her signature work “Frankenstein” for which she is so well known. Her husband drowned when she was 25 which added further to the earlier loss of 3 of her 4 children. Beset with such great tragedy, at only 53 a brain tumour was to take her own life. However she left behind a wonderful wcollection of works of which Valperga is a rich and textured part.

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateJan 3, 2014
    ISBN9781783949229
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