The young girl who wrote a classic - Tale of abandoment

[packman]

"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!—Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriance only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion, and straight black lips"

And the author describes the human a scientist created and then left in the 1818 novel FRANKENSTEIN. Written as a dare and echoing her own story of a father leaving a family, the book- at its heart - is

(a story of ) her working out her own tragedies with child-bearing may be present, I suspect that Mary Shelley was actually thinking of her own birth. Shelley’s mother, the feminist theorist Mary Wollstonecraft, died as a consequence of giving birth to Mary. She died of puerperal fever: the systemic infection that we now know was caused by the introduction of bacteria into the open blood vessels of the uterus after birth. It was a brutal, painful way to die, and the destruction of tissue also produced sickening odors that made it a true horror for its sufferers and those who witnessed its effects.



http://www.signature-reads.com/2018/01/200-year-later-were-still-learning-from-the-frankenstein-the-1818-text/