...FOR G. AND WB WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA-LANE. 1823. PREFACE. THE event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the...work of fancy, I have not considered myself as merely a3 weaving a series of supernatural terrors. The event on which the interest of the story depends is...

...Sheltey, daughter of Mr Godwin and Mrs Mary Woolstonecroft. See her Preface to the last ' edition.] Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall...imagination ; yet, in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancv, I have not considered myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors. The event,...

...to describe. " The event' on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr Durwin, and gome of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of...remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination yr I . in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, I have not considered myself as merely weaving...

...Frankenstein ia Mrs Shelley, daughter of Mr Godwin aud Mrs Mary WoolstonecrofU See her Preface to the latt Germany) as not of impossible occurrence. I shall...yet, in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, 1 have not considered myself as merely wearing a series of supernatural terrors. The event, on which...

...IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. " ''I ''HE event on which this fiction is founded, has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the...impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as recording the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination ; yet, in assuming it as the...

...referred in his Preface to Frankenstein when he insisted that "the event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin and some of the physiological...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence" (F, p. 6). Even though Erasmus Darwin never fully endorsed the revolutionary theory of Galvani and...

...remark that this fiction has a possible factual basis: "The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrance."32 It is only after his literary context has been established that Marlowe begins his own...

...(actually written by Percy) the opening lines state that "the event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence."" Later, in her introduction to the 1831 edition, Mary recalls how she, her husband, and Lord Byron discussed...

...acknowledges Erasmus Darwin in the opening of her 1817 preface: 'The event on which this fiction is founded, has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not ofimpossible occurrence.' 1 1 In Aspects of Form, ed. Lancelot Law Whyte (London, 1968): 41. 12 Ernst...

...Shelley established between the possible and the credible. "The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr Darwin and some of the physiological...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence," she wrote in her preface. The father of the theoretician of evolution looked positively upon her fable...