The Gothic novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, was written by English writer and novelist Mary Shelley when she was just 18 years old. And the story of how it came to be almost reads like a Gothic story in and of itself.
It was a rainy summer in 1816, when 18-year-old Mary and her lover (who would be her future husband) Percy Bysshe Shelley visited Lord Byron near Lake Geneva in the Swiss Alps. Because of the weather there was not much to do and the trio were effectively housebound.
While sitting around a fire, Lord Byron proposed that the three of them each attempt to write their own ghost story. After several days, Mary thought of the idea "perhaps a corpse would be re-animated." She originally intended for it to simply be a short story, but at the encouragement of Percy she began developing it into a full novel. Mary would later to go on to say that rainy summer was "when I first stepped out from childhood into life."
The novel that was born from the ghost stroy prompt was Frankenstein.
View this post on InstagramMuch of Frankenstein was written while Mary spent time in Bath, England in 1816 following the death of her sister. The novel was first published when she was 20 on New Years Day, 1818. It was initally published anonymously, with Mary being first credited as the author on a French translation published in Paris in 1821.
The novel Frankenstein centers Victor Frankenstein who tells his story to the explorer Robert Walton who has rescued him from the Arctic. Frankenstein was an ambitious young scientist who was seeking to discouver the secret to life. He does this by creating a grotesque and disfigured monster who becomes sentient, but is shunned by society. When rejected by humans and his creator, the monster seeks revenge on Frankenstein who then faces the consequences of what he has created.
Frankenstein is widely influential and now considered a classic amongst English literature. Many also consider it to be the first true monster novel. It also pioneered science fiction and was innovative in Gothic horror as it replaced the supernatural with true science and humans behind the horrors that occur.
Without a doubt, this novel written by an 18-year-old girl truly changed literature as we know it today.
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