Death and the maidens Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley circle

Synopsis

"When notorious feminist and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft died bearing the future Mary Shelley, she left her first daughter Fanny alone in the world. Reared in the home of William Godwin with Mary and their stepsister Claire, Fanny lived in the shadow of others. When the rich, young poet and idealistic thinker Percy Bysshe Shelley came to stay with the Godwin family, Mary, Claire, and Fanny were mesmerized. So the fate of these maidens was sealed." "In 1816, Shelley, Mary, and Claire went to