Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.
PML 16799
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1910
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her at Albaro. She left Genoa a few months for England. I called on her in London in 1824—but as my friends disliked her Circle of Friends—and Mrs Shelley was then no longer in a Foreign Country helpless, pennyless, and broken hearted—I never returned again to her but I preserve this Book and her autograph notes to me—as at some future day they will be literary Curiosities.