Mary Shelley

Naming – of the author, the creator and the creature – is a real issue in Frankenstein, and the question of who actually wrote what the Belle Assemblée described as a “very bold fiction” is not new. It has vexed critics since the novel’s anonymous publication in 1818. Early reviewers may not have been able to decide who the author was, but they were keen to give him or her a name, just as later writers and adapters were equally anxious to label (or mislabel) the creature, transferring the name “Frankenstein” from creator to his creation. --Lynda Pratt , Who wrote the original Frankenstein? The Times of London, October 29, 2008 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

Authors' Calendar, by Petri Liukkonen (2008)

Yes, Frankenstein really was written by Mary Shelley. It's obvious - because the book is so bad. By Germaine Greer, The Guardian, April 9, 2007
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