How Old Was Mary Shelley When She Created Frankenstein?

How Old Was Mary Shelley When She Created Frankenstein? Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley began writing “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus” when she was eighteen years old, two years after she’d become pregnant with her first child, a baby she did not name. How old is the creation in Frankenstein? Frontispiece to Frankenstein, an illustration from