Read the passage. The Publishers of the Standard Novels, in selecting Frankenstein for one of their series, expressed a wish that 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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Mullen

19 May, 16:41

Read the passage. The Publishers of the Standard Novels, in selecting Frankenstein for one of their series, expressed a wish that 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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Dayanara Mckinney · Answer 1

I think it is because s 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.