The book took a little while to take off, but by the late 1820's, there were about 15 stage versions in London and Paris. About 4000+ words were his, but Grayling described it only as 'close editing'. Chris Grayling said he'd examined the manuscripts and said Percy had done a 'blue pencil job' (whatever that means), that he'd corrected the grammar. There have been suggestions that Percy Shelley did a lot of the writing. Mary and Percy Shelley were both vegetarians. There were only about 450 odd first edition books available to public (I wondered if Pip from Great Expectations was reading one when Magwich came up to meet him). Eventually it was published by Lackington, who specialised on books on the occult. Mary Shelley had difficulty finding a publisher. When it was first published it cost 16 shillings and 6 pence, which would be about £85 in today's money, so expensive. Anyway, some of the points I thought were interesting: He even made his answers to some of the rubbish questions his audience asked him quite interesting. The lecture was schedule for 90 minutes, which had me worried, but actually it was very interesting. I am not sure I could not have watched it at home on YouTube, but I suppose it saves me a bit of bandwidth on my bill. It turned out the lecture was being streamed from the British Library and projected onto a screen. I went along to a local library to watch Chris Grayling (quite famous academic) give a lecture on Frankenstein, the first 200 years.
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