Mary simply but explicitly declared she was Shelley’s “body and soul”- and calmly waited to see what he would say. It was there that Mary, rather than Shelley made the first move and declared her love. On this particular Sunday, Mary and Shelley left Jane sitting on a gravestone at the edge of the graveyard while they went to Mary Wollstonecraft’s grave. However, the only time the couple could be open with each other was during walks they took in the company of Mary’s stepsister, Jane Clairmont. Mary had some idea of Shelley’s feelings for her from the secret notes passed between them. In that time, their relationship had blossomed from a warm friendship into a passionate romance. So in June 1814, it was probably the most natural and convenient place in the world to make a forbidden declaration of love.īy June 26 th1814, Mary and Shelley had only known each other for a matter of weeks. From her earliest childhood, Mary would escape to her mother’s grave in St Pancras Churchyard, to read and be alone with her thoughts. However, Mary still felt close to her dead mother. Mary Wollstonecraft had died just days after her birth. Mary Godwin spent a lot of time at her mother’s grave. Mary Declared her love for Shelley at her Mother’s Grave.
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