Background
The novel, Frankenstein, was written by young 19 year old named Mary Shelly, daughter of an English journalist and novelist and a feminist. Mary claimed she started with having a bad case of writer's block, but was relieved by a frightening vision. A vision which encouraged the story line of her novel. She wrote the novel in 1817 an published it anonymously the next year. Frankenstein, a book of horrors and far ahead of its time, made quite a stir after being published.