Larissa

“She continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : Illustrated

“I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : Illustrated

“where he lived unknown and in wretchedness.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : Illustrated

“A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his services.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : Illustrated