— from Frankenstein illustrated by Lynd Ward

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

— Mary Shelley, from Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.

on the creation of art

antonin artaud, van gogh: the man suicided by society / gwendolyn brooks, “boy breaking glass” / mary shelley, introduction to frankenstein / georgia o’keeffe / haki r. madhubuti, “for the consideration of poets”

“The woods, and lakes, and mountains which I have loved, have for me a thousand associations;”

— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1819