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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