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| | Mary Shelly and Her Monster |
 | | Her father's celebrity also gave Mary the opportunity to grow up in a home visited by some of the most celebrated Romantic poets of her day-Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the man she was to fall deeply in love with, Percy Bysshe Shelley. |
 | | Mary Shelley, on the other hand, whose intellectualism caused her to question the constructs of society, chose to herself become the monster, not divorcing herself from her feelings, but honoring them. |
 | | Mary Shelley would experience more pain in her own relatively short life, like the loss of her husband's son by Harriet, Charles Bysshe Shelley, making her son Percy the heir to his grandfather's fortune. |
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