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anastassius [24]
3 years ago
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Read the passage. The Publishers of the Standard Novels, in selecting Frankenstein for one of their series, expressed a wish tha

t I should furnish them with some account of the origin of the story. … I shall thus give a general answer to the question, so very frequently asked me: “How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?” What is Mary Shelley’s purpose for writing the introduction to Frankenstein?
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2 answers:
Serjik [45]3 years ago
6 0
I think it is because s<span>he had a hard time of it with Percy Bysshe when they were in Italy and wrote Frankenstein to "get back at him" once they returned to the UK. Although she had also a competition with her friend in which who has the best ghost story.</span><span />
kodGreya [7K]3 years ago
4 0

to give due credit to Lord Byron and others who inspired her novel

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