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The Invisible Girl is a Gothic tale written by Mary Shelley and first published in The Keepsake for 1833.

The tale is set in Wales, and tells the story of a young woman named Rosina, who lives with her guardian, Sir Peter Vernon, and is secretly engaged to his son, Henry.

Henry is away from home when their relationship is discovered, and Sir Peter casts Rosina out of the house.

Sir Peter regrets his harshness and searches for her, but assumes she is dead when she cannot be found.

Henry returns home to the news of Rosina's death and is heartbroken.

He joins the search for her body, and the villagers tell him about the Invisible Girl, a ghostly figure who wanders the woods at night.

Henry finds Rosina hiding in a remote ruin and discovers that she is really the Invisible Girl.

Sir Peter forgives them for their secret engagement, and they are married.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.

She was married to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.