When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling… - Mary Wollstonecraft

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When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well to hers as the gentle singing of the pines under the air of noon, and the soft murmurs of the breeze that scattered her hair and freshened her cheek, and the dashing of the waters that has no beginning or end.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist. She was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and married Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Pen Names: Mr. Cresswick

Alternative Names: Mary Godwin • Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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