Mary Shelley | How Old Was Mary Shelley When She Wrote Frankenstein?

By Marielle Gage C.A.,  HAI Archivist

By Marielle Gage C.A., HAI Archivist Almost everyone has heard of Frankenstein. You, yourself, might imagine a lumbering hulk of a man resurrected by a mad scientist. The pedant may correct you that, of course, the creature’s proper name is Dr. Frankenstein’s Monster. If this frustrates you, feel free to respond to your imaginary interlocutor that Victor von Frankenstein is a university student in the novel, and therefore has not earned the title of “doctor” when he reanimates his creation. But regardless of quibbles over names and titles, the fact remains that Frankenstein is a seminal…

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