Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
T/F Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein for Lord Byron.

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DD: "In what sense do they mean.... "FORRRRRR" him?

So, okay, I read a bit of background here, and I now understand the question less than I did originally, when I knew nothing of the Year without a Summer (1816) and Lake Geneva and telling scary stories while futilely hoping the rain might stop sometime before 1817.

Clearly, "for Lord Byron" does not refer to a homework assignment that Byron convinced Mary Shelley to do for him.

It was Byron's idea to have a creepy story writing competition. It seems unlikely that Shelley would have gone to all the trouble of writing a novel, and then credit it to Byron so that he could win the competition with her story. Besides, he wrote his own creepy story.

If she hated him, perhaps she wrote the novel as a strange way of expressing her feelings for Lord Byron.

Last edited by Val; 10/19/12 11:13 AM.