Mary Shelley and the Creation of "Frankenstein"

Today were looking at the biography of Mary Shelley and, especially, how it laid the foundation for her to create “Frankenstein”. I am very grateful to have been sent a beautiful facsimile copy of the original manuscript of “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley by S P Books (which I will be showing off in this video). They have loads of fascinating facsimiles; check them out at: https://www.spbooks.com/75-frankenstein-9791095457459.html

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Portrait of William Godwin by James Northcote (1802). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie (c. 1797). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Screenshots from: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Mary Shelley; Oxford English Dictionary entries for “Deism” and “Pantheism”.

“Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound” by Joseph Severn (1845). Held by the Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome, Italy.

Portrait of Mary Shelley by Richard Rothwell (exhibited 1840). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of Claire Clairmont by Amelia Curran (1819). Held by Newstead Abbey.

Portrait of William Shelley by Amelia Curran (1819). Held in an unknown collection.

Portrait of Lord Byron by Richard Westall (1813). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Caricature of Sir Percy Florence Shelley Bt. Published in “Vanity Fair”, 13 December 1879.

A still from the film Frankenstein (1910), showing Charles Stanton Ogle as the monster. The Edison Kinetogram 2 (4). Orange, N.J.: Thomas A. Edison Inc.
Screenshots from Germaine Greer’s article in The Guardian in 2007 – “Yes, Frankenstein really was written by Mary Shelley. It's obvious - because the book is so bad”: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/09/gender.books

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