Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womensHistoryMonth</span></a></p><p>What do many consider the 1st <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scienceFiction</span></a>?</p><p>One of the first works of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> (certainly <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bodyHorror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bodyHorror</span></a>)?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaryShelley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryShelley</span></a>'s "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frankenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frankenstein</span></a>"</p><p>Written as a *teenager*</p><p>A teenager who had recently lost a baby</p><p>I think that's key</p><p>Horror not from taking life</p><p>But creating life</p><p>She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain</p><p>The summer was cold and rainy so <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LordByron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LordByron</span></a> (yes him) proposed a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ghostStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ghostStory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingContest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writingContest</span></a></p><p>I think she won</p><p>1/x</p>