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Her Life a Continuous Experiment

Mary made her life a continuous experiment. Rejected by Fuseli, she left England and followed the French Revolution in the days of terror, like a modern journalist who goes to the front. She embarked on a trip to the Scandinavian countries and found herself with a daughter writing her extraordinary letters of hers from Scandinavia, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. It was these letters that transformed the philosopher William Godwin from admirer into lover of her. The marriage was her last but "fruitful experiment", as Virginia Woolf called it. A life of "experiments" done on his own skin.

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