... interest in this theme while at Oxford. A friend of his, Jefferson Hogg, describes Percy Shelley's early experiments with galvanism, which solidly makes the link between Mary's husband and Victor Frankenstein: Percy Shelley proceeded, with much eagerness and enthusiasm, to show me the various instruments, especially the electrical apparatus; turning round the handle very rapidly, so that the fierce, crackling ... sparks flew forth; and presently standing on the stool with glass feet, he begged me to work the machine until he was filled with the fluid [ ].(Hindle, "introduction-, Frankenst...

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... the hardships of her childhood, periodic depressions, and support and encouragement from her husband, Percy Shelley, Mary would not have been capable of producing such a thought provoking, intellectual novel as Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus. Mary Godwin was born to Mary Wollstonecraft, considered to be the first feminist, and William Godwin, an active atheist in Catholic Europe, on August 30, ... of life could be discovered and whether scientists could galvanize a corpse of manufactured humanoid" (Woodbridge Summer of 1816). As very many critical analyses state, this very theme...

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