Mathilda Illustrated

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

At eleven years of age Diana was his favourite playmate

She's 11, he's 9.

Although she was elder than he by nearly two years

I clung to the memory of my parents; my mother I should never see, she was dead: but the idea of [my] unhappy, wandering father was the idol of my imagination.

E quasi mi perdei gli occhi chini.

And I almost lost my lowered eyes.