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Her mother died when she was only days old, and mary and her halfsister fanny were raised by their father. Shelley spent the summer of 1816 near geneva, switzerland, where much of the novel takes place. Frankenstein was first printed without her name in london in 1818. The reception of structuralism and poststructuralism. The first edition was published anonymously in london in 1818.
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