Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Lessons

1798, as part of Posthumous Works
Mary Wollstonecraft
Lessons
B-

Starting with the very basic Lesson I ("Cat.  Dog.  Cow.  Horse...."), this moves on to the more personal advice of a mother to her young daughter.  Mary's own firstborn daughter, Fanny Imlay, herself committed suicide at 22, while the namesake baby that Mary died giving birth to of course wrote Frankenstein, more on that in a few weeks.

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