WorkMary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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Documented 1833

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to James F. Clarke

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“Here is a man talking to Bill about Frankenstein— After getting the story from her he says "a very good outline but where is the moral?— Tieck would have been delighted— Moral of Frankenstein forsooth?—”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.