{"id":122679,"date":"2018-03-21T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=122679"},"modified":"2018-03-21T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T15:07:49","slug":"frankenstein-in-mary-shelleys-own-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/frankenstein-in-mary-shelleys-own-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Frankenstein<\/em> in Mary Shelley\u2019s Own Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_122688\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mary-shelley-9481497-2-raw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122688\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mary-shelley-9481497-2-raw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mary-shelley-9481497-2-raw.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mary-shelley-9481497-2-raw-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mary-shelley-9481497-2-raw-768x954.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mary-shelley-9481497-2-raw-824x1024.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-122688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Shelley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>In 1816, Lord Byron challenged his fellow vacationers to a contest. Among the competitors were Mary Shelley (n\u00e9e Mary Godwin), her soon-to-be husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, her stepsister Claire Clairmont, and Byron\u2019s doctor, John William Polidori. Each was expected to write the best horror story she or he could manage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Over the next few days, Mary\u2019s dreams became strange\u2014in her sleep she imagined a man who created new life, only to be haunted by the creature he willed into being. This dream became the basis of her horror story, which in turn became the basis of her now canonical novel <\/em>Frankenstein<em>. In honor of the two hundredth\u00a0anniversary of its publication, SP Books has put together a\u00a0facsimile of Shelley\u2019s original manuscript. The pages are in Shelley\u2019s own handwriting, and each is riddled with corrections, annotations, and messages for her husband, who also served as her reader. The first five pages of the manuscript are presented below.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-1-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-1-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-1-738x1024.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-2-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-2-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-2-738x1024.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-3-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-3-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-3-738x1024.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-4-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-4-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-4-738x1024.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-5-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-5-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/5-first-pages-paris-review-5-738x1024.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from the beginning pages of a new deluxe, limited-edition, slip-case version of the handwritten manuscript of Mary Shelley\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Frankenstein<i>,<\/i><em>\u00a0published by Editions des Saint P\u00e8res (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SP Books<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In 1816, Lord Byron challenged his fellow vacationers to a contest. Among the competitors were Mary Shelley (n\u00e9e Mary Godwin), her soon-to-be husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, her stepsister Claire Clairmont, and Byron\u2019s doctor, John William Polidori. Each was expected to write the best horror story she or he could manage. Over the next few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[204,33323,10258,17883],"class_list":["post-122679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-frankenstein","tag-mary-godwin","tag-mary-shelley","tag-percy-shelley"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Frankenstein\u2019 in Mary Shelley\u2019s Own Hand<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On the bicentennial of the original publication of \u2018Frankenstein,\u2019 we\u2019re presenting pages from Mary Shelley\u2019s original manuscript.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/21\/frankenstein-in-mary-shelleys-own-hand\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Frankenstein in Mary Shelley\u2019s Own Hand by The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"March 21, 2018 \u2013 &nbsp; In 1816, Lord Byron challenged his fellow vacationers to a contest. 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