Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, was conceived by Mary Wollstonecroft Godwin following a challenge by Lord Byron, as Mary visited Byron by Lake Geneva in Switzerland during the cold summer of 1816, the "Year Without A Summer". Mary, her husband-to-be Percy Bysshe Shelley and Byron had read Fantasmagoriana, an anthology of German ghost stories, and Byron challenged them to compose a story of their own.

Mary Shelley completed Frankenstein in May 1817, and it was first published on 1st January 1818. The novel combines elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement and warns of the over-reaching of modern man and the Industrial Revolution.

Additional resources:

Wikipedia: Frankenstein
Wikipedia: Mary Shelley
Sparknotes.com: Frankenstein

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