Who Was the Inspiration for Dr. Frankenstein?

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Who Was the Inspiration for Dr. Frankenstein?

T he novel Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus (1818) with its story of the daring scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster made of human parts that he brought to life is one of the most famous works of fiction. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1797 – 1851) was 16 when she met the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822). Mary ran off to Europe with Shelley in 1816, and they spent the summer with Lord George Gordon Byron (1788 – 1824) and his friend and personal physician Dr. John Polidori (1795 – 1821) in Geneva. To ...

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