In the pantheon of classic repulsion , Mary Shelley ’s Frankenstein rank as one of the first , and most memorable , monstrosity tales ever told . And while it ’s easy enough to pick up a new transcript of the spine - tingle 1818 narrative frompretty much any bookstore , it ’s now potential to pore over the original , paw - penned manuscript online .
TheNew York Public Libraryteamed up with the University of Maryland’sInstitute for Technology in the Humanitiesto digitize Shelley ’s two survive notebook containing most of the work — terminated with edits by Percy Bysshe Shelley , her poet hubby . Making this almost 200 - year - old textbook click - accessible for a advanced hearing is only the first footprint for theShelley - Godwin Archive , which hopes to digitalize the entire oeuvre of the ultra - writerly family of Percy , Mary , and her parents , William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft .
There ’s a pretty extensivehow - toon the best way to navigate the situation , which fittingly launch this All Hallows Eve and is currently in beta mode . Have a scrollaroundat what star looked like in the most truly terrific time of them all : pre - word processing . [ New York Times ArtsBeat ]
Image : Shelley , M. ( 1817 ) . “ Frankenstein — Draft Notebook B , ” in The Shelley - Godwin Archive , c. 57 , fol . 29v .
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