... girl on September 1, 1817, who died a year later of a fever. The cruel and sad death of a child is presented in Frankenstein when the William, the youngest sibling of the main character, Victor Frankenstein, is murdered by vicious strangulation, "the print of the murderer's finger...on his neck"(Shelley 70.) Mary's fourth and only surviving child, Percy Florence, was born five months ... later. Although deeply disheartened by his death, he still remained in her heart and acted as an extreme inspiration to the rest of Mary's fictions along with Lord Byron, Samuel Coleridge, and still her...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate