6/19/2023 0 Comments She Made a Monster by Lynn Fulton![]() ![]() Bailey’s readers will likely linger over Sardà’s decorative watercolor and digital illustrations in a macabre style featuring sharp-edged, ghostly-looking characters. Bailey’s more in-depth volume is framed by her subject’s penchant for dreaming, and serves as a solid introduction to Shelley. In their respective accounts, Bailey and Fulton each relate that seminal evening and weave in formative events that possibly helped inspire Shelley’s masterpiece. However, she was heavily influenced by a life already full of experiences, scientific interest, heartbreak, and scandal, the last of which both picture books mostly gloss over for their young audiences. Shelley supposedly first conceived of her mad scientist and his creation two years before, on a sleepless night after being challenged by her friend Lord Byron to write a ghost story. ![]() Two hundred years ago, twenty-year-old Mary Shelley (1797–1851) anonymously published the first modern science-fiction novel: Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus. ![]() She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein ![]()
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