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Written by Robert Lowth, this book aimed to lay down rules for grammar. For punctuation, on the other hand, "few precise rules can e given, which will hold without exception in all cases; but much be left to the judgment and taste of the writer."
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George Campbell said, "Language is purely a species of fashion... It is not the business of grammar, as some critics seem preposterously to imagine, to give law to the fashions which regulate our speech."
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Written by Lindley Murray, this book adapted Lowth's publication. Murray's book reprinted into 24 editions between 1797 and 1870.
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Initial Publication of Shelley's Frankenstein, published anonymously, with the help of Percy Shelley, by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones. It was in a three-volume format.
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Died when his boat went under in a freak storm.
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Due to the success of a stage play written off the initial publication, and having recently lost Percy Shelley in an unexpected boating accident, Mary Shelley republishes the 1818 edition of Frankenstein again in a two volume set, this time with her name on it. Published by G. and W. B. Whittaker.
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Written by Samuel Kirkham, which modeled Murray's form, left out punctuation entirely, yet then began covering punctuation in the second edition on.
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After the deaths of her husband Percy, friend Lord Byron, and two of her children, Mary Shelley alters great amounts of the text to reflect her perspective on life; whim, destiny, fate are far more prevalent in the republication. This was published in a single volume. Published by Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley.
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An edition published to note the changes made from Mary Shelley's hand to Percy Shelley's hand, in-depth toward the initial 1818 publication. Edited by Charles E. Robinson.