id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 15238 Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Mathilda .txt text/plain 48526 2721 81 Highly personal as the story was, Mary Shelley hoped that it would be the story of her ill-fated love for a man whom she hopes to rejoin Like Mathilda Mary was a woman of strong passions and affections which Mathilda's, Mary's mother had died a few days after giving her birth. Mathilda she met and loved a poet of "exceeding beauty," and--also that, like Mathilda, she had lost a beloved but cruel father. _Mathilda_ offers a good example of Mary Shelley's methods of wrote an article, "Mary Shelley's _Mathilda_, an Unpublished Story and love-breathing countenance of my father now when I dared fix on him a To this life, miserable father, I devote thee!--Go!--Be thy days love and life would infuse new spirit into her, and that with him near Mathilda's "adoration" for her father may be compared to Mary's my eyes for ever wet by tears but I was here visited by a lovely ./cache/15238.txt ./txt/15238.txt