'Frankenstein' was written in 1818 by Mary Shelley. It is a Gothic novel a man trying to play God. It is deeply disturbing and was written after the death of Shelley's first child.
Mary Shelley's life was indeed unorthodox. The first hint of the strange life she was going to lead was shown when she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, a radicalist novelist and poet. 'Frankenstein' was the result of a challenge issued by Lord Byron to a group of his friends one night in a house owned by Byron on the shores of Lake Geneva. These friends included Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Poliadori (whose answer to the challenge was the first vampyre novel 'The Vampyre'). The novel