In Defence of Harriet Shelley

by Mark Twain

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In Defence of Harriet Shelley is by Mark Twain, and the writer mentions Professor Dowden's Life of Shelley. The writer says he was not aware that Shelley's first wife was unfaithful to him, and was told that the proofs of it were in this book. The writer calls the book perhaps the strangest book that has seen the light since Frankenstein.

The writer says that when the book wishes to tell us that Mary Godwin, child of sixteen, had known afflictions, the fact saunters forth in this nobby outfit. The writer says the author of this biography was not ashamed to set down that exultant slander about Harriet, who narrowly watched a surgical operation which was being performed upon her child. The writer says the biographer attacks Harriet Shelley's honor by authority of random and unverified gossip scavengered from a group of people whose very names make a person shudder.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature".