# Khadaji's Whatcha Readin' Thread - January 2015 Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-january-2015-edition/708439 "2014-12-29T15:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-january-2015-edition/708439/141 "2015-02-01T21:30:16Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I just finished _The New Annotated Lovecraft_ with notations by Leslie S. Klinger, and am starting _The Original Frankenstein_, a truly amazing book that I didn’t realize existed. Apparently it hasn’t been published in the States, and I was lucky to stumble across a British edition. It’s a sort of “Book of J” version of Frankenstein. It includes the draft copy that _preceded_ the publication of the 3-volume 1818 edition ()the first printed version), along with the draft copy with the additions by Percy Bysshe Shelley removed, so that you have the original text (so far as is possible) that Mary Wollestonecraft herself wrote, before Percy made emendations and additions. Err Marry Wollestonecraft was Mary Shelley’s mother not the author of Frankenstein… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-january-2015-edition/708439/142 "2015-02-02T16:39:16Z")
> [@DZedNConfused](#): > > Err Marry Wollestonecraft was Mary Shelley’s mother not the author of Frankenstein… Mary wasn’t married to Percy Shelley when she wrote _Frankenstein_, and therefore wasn’t “Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley”. I chose to use that form deliberately. ---
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-january-2015-edition/708439/143 "2015-02-02T16:46:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Mary wasn’t married to Percy Shelley when she wrote _Frankenstein_, and therefore wasn’t “Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley”. > I chose to use that form deliberately. If you say so but a quick Google search seems to feel otherwise… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-january-2015-edition/708439/144 "2015-02-02T17:21:45Z")
> [@DZedNConfused](#): > > If you say so but a quick Google search seems to feel otherwise… They were married on Dec. 30, 1816, by which time Mary had been working on the novel for at least four months (she finished her draft at the end of March or beginning of April 1817). I did err in not calling her Marty Wollestonecraft _Godwin_. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-january-2015-edition/708439/145 "2015-02-02T17:22:34Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Mary wasn’t married to Percy Shelley when she wrote _Frankenstein_, and therefore wasn’t “Mary Wollestonecraft Shelley”. > I chose to use that form deliberately. It is a little confusing considering that Mary Wollstonecraft the Elder was a famous author in her own right. Technically her daughter is Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin before her marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadajis-whatcha-readin-thread-january-2015-edition/708439/146 "2015-02-02T19:55:45Z")
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