Mary Shelley read West Indian colonial history while conceiving Frankenstein
Evidence
- Malchow, “Frankenstein’s Monster,” 99. Shelley kept a meticulous record of the books she read in her journals. During 1814–1815, she and Percy also read a history of the West Indies. See Malchow, “Frankenstein’s Monster,” 99–100. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 1119