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"Maybe Godwin, impeccably educated as he was, could teach her the rules of syntax - an unlikely foundation for romance, perhaps, but for Mary, there could be few more intimate exchanges."

For Mary Shelley "uncontrolled patriarchal power was dangerous for everyone, including men."

I'm at the point of the book when, much like Pinocchio, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley are just getting themselves into one bad situation after another and reaping the consequences.

"The clouds begin to gather, and summer disappears almost before it has ripened the fruit of autumn" - Mary Wollstonecraft

"To her, Gilbert's betrayal, his disagreement with her about how to live one's life, represented the ultimate collision of ideologies; he stood for the commercial forces of the Industrial Revolution; she stood for the truth of the mind and the heart."

In Rome "the air felt heavy with history."