How Frankenstein Came to Life
THE SOURCE: "Who Wrote Frankenstein?" by Jonathan Gross, in The Common Review, Fall 2007.
YOU'VE HEARD THE ARGUMENT before: How could a Stratford grain hoarder and a tube who didn't own books possibly be the real Shakespeare? The answer, according to some, is that Shakespeare is merely the nom de plume of a writer with a proper pedigree: Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, schooled at Cambridge at age eight. Most scholars disagree.
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Now the authorship question is being applied with a misogynistic twist to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). How could an 18-year-old girl possibly have written the soaring prose of Frankenstein? How …
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Publication information:
Article title: How Frankenstein Came to Life.
Contributors: Not available.
Magazine title: The Wilson Quarterly.
Volume: 32.
Issue: 1
Publication date: Winter 2008.
Page number: 84+.
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