Percy Shelley’s correction of Mary Shelley’s misspelling of
“igmmatic” in the notebooks in which she scrawled the story of
Frankenstein – “enigmatic o you pretty Pecksie!” he wrote – will be seen
in all its glory in a new facsimile of Shelley’s handwritten text to be
published in March.
Shelley wrote the draft of Frankenstein in two large notebooks over
nine months, after famously being challenged by Lord Byron, along with
her then lover Percy Shelley, stepsister Claire Clairmont and Byron’s
personal physician John Polidori, to “each write a ghost story” in the
summer of 1816 by Lake Geneva. She was 18 at the time, and continued her
work on the story after returning to the UK, finishing in the spring of
1817.
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, which tells of how the
scientist Victor Frankenstein brings life to a monster stitched together
from human remains, was published in 1818. The original notebooks are
held in the Bodleian library in Oxford. ... [mehr] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/19/copies-of-mary-shelleys-original-frankenstein-text-to-be-published
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