Mary Shelley

Frankenstein Annotated Mary Shelley

The genesis of Frankenstein's draft is certainly bizarre. In 1817 Mary Shelley spent the summer nearby Lake Geneva, together with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley (poet and philosopher) and some other friends like the famous poet Lord Byron. On that occasion, everyone was invited by Lord Byron to invent and write a ghost story. Thus, Mary Shelley, who was influenced by the theories about the reanimation of the corpses (particularly in vogue in those days), got the idea for writing the famous Frankenstein. Since its first edition, in 1818,