The themes of creation, life, and death in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein were influenced, in part, by the loss of her mother (the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft) when Shelley was 11 days old and the death of her first child shortly after giving birth in March 1815. After her infant daughter’s death, Shelley had experienced a dream in which she coaxed her child back to life.
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