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'My filthy workshop of creation...'

I’ve been making something, and the garden is messy

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Jane Davis
Apr 17, 2025
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That’s a phrase from Mary Shelley’s moving and terrifying 1818 novel, Frankenstein. If you haven’t read it, let me tell you, it’s not what you think. Get a copy. Read. It’s short. Takes a bit of getting into but completely worth the effort.

Ms. Shelley gives those words to Doctor Frankenstein, the creator of the famous Monster. The Monster, like the res…

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