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How the original was stitched together

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 20041004
Author:JOANNE WEINTRAUB

How the original was stitched together

Nineteen years old and recently married to the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, English writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley spent the summer of 1816 in the environs of Geneva, Switzerland.

"The season was cold and rainy," she wrote the following year in the preface to her most famous book, "and in the evenings we crowded around a blazing wood fire and occasionally amused ourselves with some German stories of ghosts which happened to fall into our hands.

"These tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation. Two other friends and myself . . . agreed to write ...

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