Vol. I, Chapter I, pp. 42–43

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1797–1851

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818.

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1910

PML 16799
Vol. I, pp. 42–43
Transcription: 

As my father’s age encreased he became more attached to the quiet of a domestic life, and he gradually relinquished his public employments, and devoted himself with ardour to the education of his children.