Question

According to the introduction, who encouraged mary shelley to expand frankenstein into a full-length novel?

Answer 1

The correct answer is - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a popular English novelist, a short story writer who wrote dramas and essays, a biographer, and also, a travel writer. She became famous for her work on a Gothic novel called Frankenstein.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was her husband who was also a philosopher and a romantic poet.

Mary Shelley heard Percy Shelley and Lord Byron discussing about Galvinism. They were all reading ghost stories. She started writing it as a short story, but with Percy Shelley's encouragement, the short tale was expanded into her first novel called Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, which was published in 1818.