• EABOD25@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    Mary Shelley’s Frankentstein is noted to be the future sci-fi story. Mary at the time was dealing with grief of the death of her husband. That’s all I’m saying

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      3 hours ago

      No she wasn’t. Frankenstein was published in 1818, Percy Shelley died in 1822. She did have multiple stillborn children, the first of which was within the year prior to the initial first draft of the story, plus she blamed herself for the postpartum death of her own mother. Percy helped edit Frankenstein, he wasn’t dead yet.