What Is Mary Shelley's Abundance Of Disease And Suffering

It is without question that Britain was facing increasing problems 1819, and ‘the urban adult population in general faced grave health risks resulting from poverty, crowded housing and poor ventilation as the so-called “filth diseases”.’ This abundance of disease and suffering would have contributed significantly to Shelley’s interest in the vitality debate, especially having already lost 3 children he shared with Mary Shelley to premature birth, dysentery and malaria. Mary Shelley, when editing Shelley’s posthumous collection of poems shared her belief that:
Shelley possessed a quality of mind which experience has shown me to be of the rarest occurrence among human beings: this was his unworldliness. The usual motives that rule men, prospects