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Plaque unveiled to honor author of 'Frankenstein'

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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20031004
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The biographer of "Frankenstein" author Mary Shelley unveiled an English Heritage blue commemorative plaque at the writer's London home on Friday.

Miranda Seymour led tributes to Shelley at the house at 24 Chester Square in central London where the author lived from 1846 until her death in 1851.

Mary Godwin, born into a freethinking family in London in 1797, married the poet and radical Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816.

In 1822 Shelley drowned in a sailing accident off the coast of Italy, and Mary Shelley returned to London in the summer of 1823 with their 3-year-old son Percy.

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