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Of her post "Frankenstein" work, the one that has attracted the most attention is another science fiction/fantasy novel, "The Last Man", imagining the consequence of a world-wide plague. (Prescient).

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Yes but in her journal of the two tours into Switzerland she comes across (to me anyway) as having a lot of fun despite their chaotic lifestyle. I'd add that Percy's death not entirely 'tragic accident' he was a serial risk taker in small boats.

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@The Freelance Writing Network thought you might like this. :)

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I’d like your sources on her feelings of being key somehow karmicly punished for Harriet’s suicide?

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“In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein” by Fiona Sampson

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Ok, well, I’ve read so much source material, and I’ve never found such, but I am open to seeing her research when I get a moment. I do agree that the inequities in all the women’s lives of her generation were viscerally felt by her, she took so much of her mother’s writings to heart.

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Thank you for this. That last paragraph is so true and important!

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