London
- St.
Pancras
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| Old
Saint Pancras
Church (there
are two Saint
Pancras Churches
in the area,
Old and "New" Saint
Pancras—Old
Pancras
is on Pancras
Road between
Pancras
Way and
the St.
Pancras
train station)
still stands,
along with
the original
gravesite
of Mary
Wollstonecraft,
where Shelley
was said
to have
wooed and
won her
daughter. |
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| William Godwin and his second wife were later buried here
as well; however, Godwin's and Wollstonecraft's bodies were
eventually moved to the Shelley family plot at Bournemouth.
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| There they joined Mary Shelley; her only surviving child,
Percy Florence; and—according to legend—Percy
Shelley’s heart (or liver). |
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| Legend
has it that
as a child,
young Mary
Godwin visited
the site
regularly
with her father,
and learned
her alphabet
by tracing
the letters
on her mother's
tombstone
(note to
the morbidly
curious such
as I: J,
Q, X, and
Z are the
only missing
letters). |
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