When the Gothic novel was created, it was during a time of most spontaneousness, innovation, and a lot more freedom of expression. Gothic and Romantic author Mary Shelley was an uncommon woman, who was raised feminist, and surprisingly independent, much different from the average woman even at such a young age ("Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati."). Mary’s unconventional life up to the summer of 1816 (when she was still only 18), along with the company in which she found herself in June of that year, and even the unusual weather conditions at the time, all contributed to the book’s genesis ("Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati."). These circumstances gave birth to Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein (1818) read like