Frankenstein+TILs

In the form of a hyperlinked #|TIL statement, post something interesting, unique, or unusual about one of the following:
 * Author Mary Shelley
 * The genre of //gothic fiction.//

Post by Sunday night, 1.12. TIL that Mary Shelly was born in sommers town, London ( Ghanash Vigneswaran) [|TIL that 13 unpublished letters form Mary Shelley were found in the Essex Record Department] (Joseph D'Addesa) TIL Mary Shelley knew Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin. (By Robbie Sandhu) TIL Edgar the Game, focusing on Poe and the Gothic genre, is in production (Anish Vora) [|TIL that Frankenstein was written for a contest and the modern vampire story came from the same contest] (Jessie Chang) [|TIL that Mary Shelley married poet Percy Shelley, and her half-sister Claire had a child with poet Lord Byron][|.] (Grace Chen) TIL that Mary Shelley kept her husband's heart wrapped in silk???? TIL that Mary Shelley wished that she were taller. (David Tsai) [|TIL that Shelley's mom was] [|Mary Wollstonecraft, a figure in the Enlightenment.] (Nicole Gololobov) [|TIL Mary started writing Frankenstein when she was only 19 years old.](Vinod Raman) [|TIL that Mary Shelly was inspired by the grandfather of Charles Dickens when she wrote __Frankenstein__.] (Devin Soni) [|TIL that Frankenstein may have been the result of Lord Byron (an English poet) daring Shelley to write a ghost story](Sukhmann Aneja) [|TIL that t][|he earliest use of the term ‘Frankenstein food’ to refer to genetically modified food was in 1989.] (Randi Steiner) TIL that the novel was a reflection of Mary's own sense of alienation and isolation. (Atsi Shah) [|TIL that Mary Shelly published her fisrt poem at the age of 10! (Varunaj Baskaran)] TIL that Mary Shelly's half-sister, Fanny, committed suicide (Jess Debski) TIL that Mary Shelly sometimes read by her mother's grave (Craig Thorogood) [|TIL that Mary Shelly only gave birth to one surviving child, Percy Florence] (Anusha Prasad) [|TIL that Mary Shelly died at the age of 53 due to a brain tumor] (Olivia Noë) [|TIL that Mary Shelley and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley met secretly when she was 17 without her father's approval (very][|romeo] [| and][|juliet] [|-][|esque] [|!!)] (Jean Thompson) TIL both of Mary Shelley's kids died before the age of four( Jen Chu) TIL that Mary Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein during a summer she spent in Geneva Switzerland (Nick Zienkiewicz) [|TIL Mary Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died eleven days after Mary Shelley was born] (Becky Cardinali) TIL that Frankenstein's monster never actually gets a name in the book (Dennis Brookner) [|TIL that Mary Shelley's husband drowned when he was out sailing when she was 24] (Lyndsey Stewart) TIL that Mary Shelley was black mailed towards the end of her life (Michelle Remmett) [|TIL that the electrocution thingy that made the monster "come to life"][|kinda] [| made sense at the time] (Emily Willoughby) [|TIL that Frankenstein was influenced in part by works like Paradise Lost] (Emily Choi) TIL that Mary Shelley called the monster "Adam" (Emily Yao) [|TIL it is said that the plot of Frankenstein came to Mary Shelly in a dream] (Matt Lieberman) [|TIL that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein for a competition including her future husband to see who could write][|the better] [| horror story] (Michael Usewick) [|TIL that Mary Shelley published her first poem at the age of ten]( Anjali Wadhwa) TIL that Gothic Fiction is representative of Gothic architecture. (Jacob Tyles ) TIL that Shelley's mother was considered the first feminist (Nicole Baxter-Green) [|TIL that Mary Shelley published Frankenstein when she was 21] (Rachel Baxter-Green) [|TIL that Mary Shelley ran away with a married man at the age of 16] (Allison Moore) [|TIL that people at first thought Mary's husband, Percy, wrote Frankenstein] (Margot Pitney) [|TIL that Mary Shelley lived in Genoa] (Ricson Cheng) [|TIL that Conrad Dippel was an alchemist who was believed to have experimented with human bodies in the 1700s at Castle Frankenstein in Germany.](Matthew Schueler) [|TIL that after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein the horror genre took off (Parker Geralds)] [|TIL that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein when she was 19 (Perry Huang)] [|TIL that Albert Einstein made a movie loosely based off the book](Adam Giurlando) [|TIL Mary Shelley's most famous quotes] (Kelly Sodano) [|TIL that while Shelley's son was at college, she was "mortified he [was not taller"]] (Tess Jacobson) TIL Mary Shelley was buried alongside her father and mother and with the cremated remains of her late husband's heart. (Esther Han) [|TIL that while Frankenstein is in the Gothic tradition, it introduced the "existential nature of human kind" as its horror element] (Brooke Lockwood) [|TIL that some characteristics of gothic fiction are terror, madness, and hereditary curses]. (melissa yang) sorry its late! <span style="display: block; margin: 5px auto !important;">[|TIL that she wrote the book at age 19] (Molly Mahoney) <span style="display: block; margin: 5px auto !important;">[|TIL Mary Shelley protested treatment of West Indies slaves by refusing to eat sugar.] (James Lin) <span style="display: block; margin: 5px auto !important;">[|TIL two of Mary Shelley's children died while she was on vacation in italy](Joy Mariconda) <span style="display: block; margin: 5px auto !important;">[|TIL the monster has appeared TWICE on the postal stamp.] (Evanna Wang) <span style="display: block; margin: 5px auto 0px !important;">