An idiot assistant was introduced, and a lot more paraphernalia was added to the lab. Right from the first stage versions, the monster is changed from an over-talkative, sensitive soul to a dumb brute. The book took a little while to take off, but by the late 1820's, there were about 15 stage versions in London and Paris. About 4000+ words were his, but Grayling described it only as 'close editing'. Chris Grayling said he'd examined the manuscripts and said Percy had done a 'blue pencil job' (whatever that means), that he'd corrected the grammar. There have been suggestions that Percy Shelley did a lot of the writing. Mary and Percy Shelley were both vegetarians. There were only about 450 odd first edition books available to public (I wondered if Pip from Great Expectations was reading one when Magwich came up to meet him). Eventually it was published by Lackington, who specialised on books on the occult. Mary Shelley had difficulty finding a publisher. When it was first published it cost 16 shillings and 6 pence, which would be about £85 in today's money, so expensive. Anyway, some of the points I thought were interesting: He even made his answers to some of the rubbish questions his audience asked him quite interesting. The lecture was schedule for 90 minutes, which had me worried, but actually it was very interesting. I am not sure I could not have watched it at home on YouTube, but I suppose it saves me a bit of bandwidth on my bill. It turned out the lecture was being streamed from the British Library and projected onto a screen.

(In the 1831 edition, the more popular version and the one used in this Outline, the Frankensteins adopt Elizabeth from another family).I went along to a local library to watch Chris Grayling (quite famous academic) give a lecture on Frankenstein, the first 200 years.

Some key differences exist between the editions, namely that in the first edition, Elizabeth is Alphonse's niece and, therefore, Victor's cousin. She revised the novel and published it under her real name in 1831. Shelley published the first edition of Frankenstein anonymously, perhaps due to her concern that such a grim and violent tale would not be well received by her audience if they knew her gender. She began writing the story that became Frankenstein the next morning. A few nights later, she had a dream in which she envisioned 'the pale student of unhallowed arts' kneeling beside his creation-the monster. On a stormy night in June of 1816, Mary Shelley, her husband, and a few other companions, including the Romantic poet Lord Byron, decided to try to write their own ghost stories, but Shelley couldn't come up with any ideas.

Frankenstein by mary wollstonecraft