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Mathilda

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 1819 · 94 pages

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Mary Shelley's "Matilda" - suppressed for over a century - tells the story of a woman alienated from society by the incestuous passion of her father.

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Genre
literary fictionromancehorror
Themes
gothicmental healthpsychological
Setting
1810senglandbritish
Audience
adult
Length
short · 94 pages
Form
short storiesnovella

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