Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (1797-1851), nee Wollstonecraft, was an English writer and novelist. She is best known for her work Frankenstein. She was daughter of suffragist Mary Wollstonecraft and political philosopher William Godwin. She was wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Wisdom & Quotes

• To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.

- Frankenstein

• Ah! It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

- Frankenstein

• Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like lichen on the rock.

- Frankenstein

Honore de Balzac