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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Self–expression of the Pregnant Mother's Fears

“…Woodbridge considers Frankenstein" the first articulation of a woman's experience of pregnancy and related fears" not only in English literature but in Western literature. 8 Gilbert affirms this fact, saying -in 1815, 1816, 1817; Mary Shelley was "almost continuously pregnant, confined, or nursing" 9 , so that, the book was written while Mary Shelley was either a pregnant or expecting pregnancy, as the novel was written in 1816. Kim sums up Mary Shelley's most effectual experiences in life in: "pregnancy and childbirth as well as death was an integral part of Mary Shelley's young adult."…”