I was so guided by a silken cord
Mary Shelley, though an only
child, did not grow up like one, since there
were four different parental configurations for the five children of the
Godwin household. Yet, the venerated
memory of her father's approach to her
education is surely implicit in this "silken cord" by which Victor, led
insensibly on for his own betterment, comes to enjoy his education.
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