Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
Frankenstein wasn''t the only classic horror novel created by a woman.
Within a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of science fiction. Seventeen-year-old Jane Webb Loudon took up the theme of reanimation, moved it three hundred years into the future, and applied it to Cheops, an ancient Egyptian mummy. Unlike Shelley''s ...
Frankenstein wasn''t the only classic horror novel created by a woman.
Within a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of science fiction. Seventeen-year-old Jane Webb Loudon took up the theme of reanimation, moved it three hundred years into the future, and applied it to Cheops, an ancient Egyptian mummy. Unlike Shelley''s ...
