Frankenstein was written in 1818 by Mary Shelley.

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By Sanje Balendra

Mary Shelley was born in 1797 in London, Mary was raised in a unique period of human history, a period when new civilization was beginning at time when new philosophies of the world were discovered. Mary's father William Godwin was a philosopher and her mother Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was a radical feminist. Tragically soon after the birth of Mary, Mary's mother died leaving her daughter in the care of her husband William Godwin, a member of radical thinkers, Mary's upbringing to this isolated atmosphere exposed her at an early stage to cutting edge ideas. As Mary grew she met Percy Bysshe a dashing young poet, Mary fell in love with Percy and later ran away together for a tour of Switzerland, France and Germany, there affair later came under pressure but overcame the period and later Mary and Percy then married in 1818.

Frankenstein was written in 1818 by Mary Shelley, the novel was a "Gothic Story" which was a popular style of writing in the 15th and 19th Century, and it became an immediate bestseller. The novel is based in the 18th century and is about a young man "Victor Frankenstein" who