She came from a family of intellectuals
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary may have made love on her mother's grave
Gravestones in the cemetery at St. Pancras Old Church.
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Her father disowned her ... but might have committed murder on her behalf
Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Mary was only 18 when she wrote Frankenstein
Frankenstein isn’t the monster, but rather the doctor who created him
Dr. Frankenstein came to her in a dream
The creature also isn’t green, and doesn’t have plugs sticking out of his neck
Illustration of the monster in the 1831 edition of the novel.
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Mary Shelley may have had a personal connection to corpse reanimation
The procession of the 'undead' marches through a Royal Humane Society banquet.
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She was first published in 1807
Mary didn’t put her name on the first publication of Frankenstein
Frankenstein wasn’t received well by critics upon its publication
She might have drawn inspiration from the real-life Frankenstein castle
Tragedies plagued her life
Mary Shelley wrote different versions of Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein in a 1910 film adaptation.
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She is said to have carried her late husband's heart around with her
