Mary Shelley (via Poetry Foundation) Back in the day, people just figured there was no way a woman could come up with something as dark and strange as Frankenstein . In 1818, Mary Shelley basically burst onto the scene and gave the world a monster. When readers first opened the book, their jaws pretty much dropped, like, what’s going on with this wild mix of science and huge, tangled questions about what’s right and wrong? And then, plot twist: the author turns out to be a te
