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Mathilda

Mary Shelley

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1959
Pages
Pages 120

It is a dying woman's letter, written on a bare heath in the last of her strength, addressed to the one friend who tried to keep her alive. Mathilda's mother died days after her birth; her father fled his grief, stayed away sixteen years, and came back to find her grown into her mother's face.

It is only four o’clock; but it is winter and the sun has already set
Mathilda, Mary Shelley

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