<DIV><p><I>Frankenstein</I> was first released in 1818 anonymously.</p><p>The credit for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s authorship first occurred in 1823 when a French edition was published. A year earlier, Mary’s revolutionary husband, the influential poet, dramatist, novelist, and essayist Percy Bysshe Shelley, died.</p><p>The same year <I>Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus</I> (its full title) was first published, so was another work by Mary’s husband that shares use of the word Prometheus. The drama <I>Prometheus Unbound</I> was indeed credited to Percy Shelley.</p><p>The secret admission of many experts in English literature is that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley did not write a good portion of <I>Frankenstein</I>. In <I>Shelley Unbound</I>, Oxford scholar Scott D. de Hart examines the critical information about Percy Shelley’s scientific avocations, his disputes against church and state, and his connection to the illegal and infamous anti-Catholic organization, the Illuminati.</p><p>Scott D. de Hart’s fascinating investigation into <I>Frankenstein</I> and the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Shelley results in an inconvenient truth regarding what we have long believed to be a great early example of the feminist canon.</p><p><B>Scott D. de Hart</B> was born and raised in Southern California. He graduated from Oxford University with a PhD specializing in nineteenth-century English literature and legal controversies.</p><BR></DIV>