Mary Shelley

novelist · London, England · 1797–1851

At eighteen, by a lake in Switzerland, she began a story for a ghost-story contest, and it became Frankenstein. Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft.

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1818 · Written as a letter from the explorer Walton to his sister, as he sets out for the Arctic

You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend.

Frankenstein, the second letter

1818

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Frankenstein