Chapter Fourteen Hundred! to Frankenstein of F by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Frankenstein , a student, who constructed, out of the fragments of bodies picked from churchyards and dissecting-rooms, a human form without a soul. The monster had muscular strength, animal passions, and active life, but “no breath of divinity.” It longed for animal love and animal sympathy, but was shunned by all. It was most powerful for evil, and, being fully conscious of its own defects and deformities, sought with presistency to inflict retribution on the young student who had called it into being. The monster feels that he is unlike other human beings, and in revenge murders the friend, the brother, and the bride of his creator. He tries to murder Frankenstein, but he escapes. The monster hides himself from the eye of man, in the Ultima Thule of the habitable globe, and slays Frankenstein on his way home.—Mrs. Shelley: Frankenstein (1817).

It is a great pity that Mrs. Shelley has not given the monster a name. This anonimity has caused it to be called “Frankenstein,” which, of course, is quite wrong.

In the summer of 1816, lord Byron and Mr. and Mrs. Shelley resided on the banks of the lake of Geneva … and the Shelleys often passed their evenings with Byron, at his house at Diodati. During a week of rain, having amused themselves with reading German ghost stories, they agreed to write something in imitation of them. “You and I,” said lord Byron to Mrs. Shelley, “will publish ours together.” He then began his tale of the Vampire … but the most memorable part of this story-telling compact was Mrs. Shelley’s wild and powerful romance of Frankenstein.—T. Moore: Life of Byron.