Human Side of a Historical Memory
Remembering Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
5 min readMar 8, 2021
In Frankenstein’s origin story
Fragments from the Author’s Introduction.
In this Introduction
…I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so frequently asked me — “How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?