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Painted portraitRichard Rothwell · Public domain

Mary Shelley

Shelley’s account of writing Frankenstein connects invention with remembered companionship. Read her authorial introduction separately from the novel’s characters and their competing accounts of responsibility.

1797 AD – 1851 AD · 5 collected ↗