"With what facility have I marked these pages with the stamp of rolling weeks & months & years - all uniform, all blank! What a strange power is this!"
- William Godwin, 'Notes on Journals', Abinger Collection, Dep. e. 227
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This extract from Godwin's diary records the birth
of Mary Shelley on 30 August 1797. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft,
died from complications ten days later.
Abinger Collection, Dep. e. 203, fols. 25v-26r
Abinger Collection, Dep. e. 203, fols. 25v-26r