6/27/2023 0 Comments She Made a Monster by Lynn Fulton![]() ![]() But as she drifted off to sleep, she dreamed of a man that was not a man. After much talk of science and the secrets of life, Mary had gone to bed exhausted and frustrated that nothing she could think of was scar y enough. The next day was the deadline that her friend, the poet Lord Byron, had set for writing the best ghost story. She longed to follow the path her own mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had started down, but young Mary Shelley had yet to be inspired.Īs the night wore on, Mary grew more anxious. On a stormy night two hundred years ago, a young woman sat in a dark house and dreamed of her life as a writer. On the bicentennial of Frankenstein, join Mary Shelley on the night she created the most frightening monster the world has ever seen. Publication: Septemby Knopf Books for Young Readers Source: Hardcopy courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada. ![]() Review: She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lynn Fulton, illus. ![]()
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