Estimated Time: 20 minutes

The Author

Learning about the author of a book or the setting and era can be helpful in understanding some of the deeper meanings in the passages.

Listen to this Mike Rowe podcast as background for the story of Frankenstein.

(You can skip the first 40 seconds, which is a commercial.)

Romanticism

Mary Shelley wrote this book during a period called Romanticism. Learn more about this period in the video below.