English writer Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in Somers Town, London on this day in 1797.
“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier
that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who
aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
-- from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
-- from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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