Benson the music master who gave the children weekly half-hour lessons in singing and reading music"(11) Mellor states. ... On June 22, 1816, at the age of 18, Mary had her "waking dream" that then inspired her to write Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus (Kimberly Woodbridge Summer of 1816) while staying with Lord Byron. Despite her startling young age, this work was completed in May of 1817, published eight months later on January 1, 1818 (Woodbridge Summer of 1816), and incited a tremendous response from the general public thus creating the fame of her life. ... Frankenstein's t...

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Mary Shelley began to write Frankenstein in the summer of 1816 and was heavily influenced by the social changes that were making their way across Europe. ... Through reading novels like Milton's Paradise Lost he starts wondering about himself and his isolation because of his apparent uniqueness: 'I was apparently united by no link to any other being in exis...

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In Earl Wasserman's work, "Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: A Critical Reading," written in 1965, Wasserman writes, "During the summer in which Shelley began writing Frankenstein, Byron composed his poem "Prometheus," a celebration of the god's defiance of Jupiter which emphasizes Prometheus" unyielding will, noble suffering, and concern for mankind" (71). ...

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