Today’s Birthday Girl 8/30

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Mary Shelley’s handwritten first draft of Frankenstein.

Born 1797: Mary Shelley

What would horror fans have done without Frankenstein to scare the bejabers out of them?

Shelley’s book began on a stormy night in June 1816 on the shores of Lake Geneva as her entry in a ghost-story writing contest between Byron, the Shelleys, and Byron’s physician Polidori.

Yet Frankenstein received two rejection slips — Percy Shelley’s and Lord Byron’s publishers both passed – before finally being accepted.

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