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200 years of Frankenstein

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I Don't Think She's Thinking, How Long Enough to Sell?

Mary shelley was, you know, its thought of as a one hit wonder. The novels she wrote after frankenstein are no more readable for us to day. Her great tragedy is that the brontes and george eliot were able to publish under male pseudonyms but mary couldn't ever recoup anonymity or masculine pseudonaymity. She was always read a woman as a woman. So i think it's a shame for oher reputation that it so happens that we don't read her books today.

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