Saturday 1 July 2023

Mary Woolstonecroft Shelley

I found a wrecked copy of her book Frankenstein in a recycling bag and rescued this frontage print from being pulped. Look at that face just lovely. gently formed features that suggest a benign creator. And those eyes brimming with a worldly wisdom beyond the years she lived and the heartaches which assailed her. The storms that hammered the Villa Diodatta were summer squalls compared to the storms in this woman's heart