#marygodwin When the young Romantic poet Percy Shelley met Mary Godwin, she was the teenage daughter of a famous trailblazing feminist, the long-dead Mary Wollstonecraft. The two of them shared a love of the mind—"Soul meets soul on lovers' lips, he wrote. When they ran away to Europe, it caused a major scandal, but the couple proclaimed themselves indifferent to judgment. "It was like acting in a novel, being an incarnate romance," she later said. They traveled together to visit the debauched Lord Byron, and Mary wrote Frankenstein during two weeks in Switzerland. After Percy died in a boating accident in 1822, Mary never remarried. She said having been married to a genius, she could not marry a man who wasn't one.#artoflivingmatrimony https://www.instagram.com/p/CBe-rsuD4n1/?igshid=jw6mb79mnzxc
