Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was destined from her birth, on August 30, 1797, to be different, out of step in both thoughts and feelings with ordinary minds and mundane emotions. The very nature of her unorthodox, controversial parents guaranteed that the child of their union would be dissimilar to anyone else who came into the world at the turn of the nineteenth century.

— Noel Gerson Daughter of Earth and Water (1973)

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