scientist Luigi

Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley, born in 1797, penned the classic Frankenstein. A tale of horror with deep moral implications might seem heady for a teenager, but Shelley was intellectually gifted and likely influenced by her mother’s history and the significant medical/scientific developments of the time. In 1795, Shelley’s mother attempted suicide by jumping off a bridge in London. Just prior, she expressed in a letter her hope that she would not be “snatched from the death.” A valid concern, as in...Read More