Reviews

""The extraordinary work, Frankenstein, a work which has no parallel in modern, or ancient romance, wherein a noble lesson is conveyed through a terrible and mysterious agency, with much of the power and pathos of the Greek poets, would alone have made Mrs. Shelley one of the most popular authors of prose fictions. But her creative genius is not confined to the dark and terrible; she places by the side of awful guilt and suffering; portraits and pictures of innocence in all its bright and sunny joyousness; of gentle affections and tender hopes; of womanhood in its simple glory."" - Bell's Weekly Messenger, 1835 ""One of the best novels it has been of late years our fortune to read. It contains many passages of exceeding gracefulness, of touching eloquence, and of intense feeling."" - Fraser's Magazine, 1835 ""The portraitures of love, suffering, devotion, and beauty, which this delightful work contains, will long linger in all their freshness in the memory of the reader."" - Atlas, 1835 ""As a Romance, it possesses all that high wrought excitation, and powerful interest which the materials of the subject cannot fail to command; but as a dramatic representation, it is utterly preposterous, and outrageously terrific; and fit only for the age of superstition, and a nation of barbarians."" - Imperial Weekly Gazette, 1823