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Mathilda

CHAPTER XII
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These lines from Act I, Sc.

3 are part of a speech by Lelia addressed to her lover.

Later in the play Lelia attempts to seduce her father--possibly a reason for Mary's selection of the lines.
[26] At this point (f.

56 of the notebook) begins a long passage, continuing through Chapter V, in which Mary's emotional disturbance in writing about the change in Mathilda's father (representing both Shelley and Godwin ?) shows itself on the pages of the MS.

They look more like the rough draft than the fair copy.


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