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AU Dean, Professor Betty Bennett, 71

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060824
Author:Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb - Washington Post Staff Writer

Betty T. Bennett, a literature professor at American University who was a leading authority on the life of "Frankenstein" author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and her circle of friends, died of lung cancer Aug. 12 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. She was 71.

Dr. Bennett's decades-long scholarly fascination with Shelley -- author at 19 of the Gothic classic and widow at 24 of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley -- made her somewhat of a literary sleuth. Her search for letters and intimate details of Shelley's life took her across 158,000 miles and three continents.

"I've been to all the places ...

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