Who was Mary Shelley? What was the genesis of Frankenstein? How did it get published? And how was it received?
Sources:
The University of Pennsylvania’s electronic edition of Frankenstein: http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/index.html
Colleen Theisen at the University of Iowa Libraries’ blog: https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/tag/frankenstein/
John Pipkin, “The Man Who Invented Bookselling as we Know it”, Literary Hub: http://lithub.com/the-man-who-invented-bookselling-as-we-know-it/
This episode features voice work from Paula Matzke, Steven Nelson, Mary Shelly, and Andrew Ramsay. Andrew can be found at https://www.5by12films.com/