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Entry: Maurice, or The Fisher's Cot - a Story by Mary Shelley - A87902067
Author: SashaQ - happysad - Editor - U9936370

Here's a little Entry about a little book I enjoyed reading over the holiday season.

Thanks for this. I'd never heard of this story.

It sounds sad but I suppose nineteenth century literature is like that. I think it dealt more than present day literature does with issues around bereavement - children losing parents and parents losing children. The rate of infant mortality and of the death of mothers in childbirth was much higher than in the west today. I remember going round the cemetery at Howarth, near the Bronte museum and being struck by the number of graves of children.

Thanks mvp

Yes, the story does reflect the time when death in childbirth and infant mortality were more common... It is a happysad story, though, that it is philosophical about the sad side of life, but does end on a positive note that Maurice is happy with his real parents at last...

I didn't know about this one, either. It doesn't sound as philosophical as Frankenstein.

Thanks for adding to our knowledge.

Thank you for this. I have nothing to add. The fact that Laurette's mother wrote odes to Mary's husband sounds intriguing, though.

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Thanks everyone

Sorry I missed your question until now, TC - I shall have to ask the Sub-editor to add a footnote with the title of the poem, as that helps to explain why the poem was written...

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