“Idris, the princely born, who was herself the personification of all that was divine in woman, she who walked the earth like a poet’s dream, as a carved goddess endued with sense, or pictured saint stepping from the canvas – she, the most worthy, chose me, and gave me herself – a priceless gift.”

“Idris, the princely born, who was herself the personification of all that was divine in woman, she who walked the earth like a poet’s dream, as a carved goddess endued with sense, or pictured saint stepping from the canvas – she, the most worthy, chose me, and gave me herself – a priceless gift.”

— Mary Shelley