By the time she pens the original concept for Frankenstein at the Genevan home of Lord Byron, played by Tom Sturridge , Mary Shelley born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is only 18 years old, but with a life overflowing with pain.
Mary Shelley was aware of Payne's plan, but how seriously she took it is unclear.
The private chronicles, from which the foregoing relation has been collected, end with the death of Euthanasia.
In the 1831 introduction to Frankenstein, she recalled: "I wrote then—but in a most common-place style.
The work celebrates youthful love and political idealism and consciously follows the example of and others who had combined travelling with writing.
Elise seems to have first met Paolo only in September.