ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MARY SHELLEY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
At what age did Shelley write “Frankenstein”?
A
16
B
21
C
19
D
20
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley began writing “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus” when she was eighteen years old, two years after she’d become pregnant with her first child, a baby she did not name.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mary Shelley created the story on a rainy afternoon in 1816 in Geneva, where she was staying with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, their friend Lord Byron and Lord Byron’s physician, John Polidori.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is often considered an early example of science fiction. Shelley finished writing the first edition of Frankenstein when she was 19 years old.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was first published in 1818, then later revised into the form we know it as today.

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