Mary Wollstonecraft married William Godwin--and died, poor woman, 6 months later, of puerperal fever after her daughter's birth. That daughter was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who grew up to marry Percy Bysshe Shelley (she dropped the Godwin, not the Wollstonecraft, when she married)--and to carry five children, only one of whom survived her. I'm also not sure that my implication that PBS generated even an iota of his identity from fatherhood was justified. I was trying, clumsily, to suggest that he had firsthand and very brutal experience of the ravages of disease, even if he seems to have done his best, in general, to ignore it.
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Mary Wollstonecraft married William Godwin--and died, poor woman, 6 months later, of puerperal fever after her daughter's birth. That daughter was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who grew up to marry Percy Bysshe Shelley (she dropped the Godwin, not the Wollstonecraft, when she married)--and to carry five children, only one of whom survived her. I'm also not sure that my implication that PBS generated even an iota of his identity from fatherhood was justified. I was trying, clumsily, to suggest that he had firsthand and very brutal experience of the ravages of disease, even if he seems to have done his best, in general, to ignore it.