Sublime

obdurate.

duplicitous

accretion

anathema

By the time Mary began writing Frankenstein, she had already become a mother and lost a child. Little Clara arrived two months early in February 1815, only to die two weeks later, to Mary’s harrowing sorrow. Mary wrote later of a “waking dream” that inspired Frankenstein in which she managed to revive baby Clara by moving her closer to the fire and

vitriolic.

Jeff,

I couldn’t stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.