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WHO WANTS TO HEAR ALL ABOUT HOW THERE'S A BIG SECRET (AKA NO ONE ELSE CARES) LITERATURE CONTROVERSY AS TO WHO REALLY WROTE FRANKENSTEIN? Seriously, one of my favorite undergraduate professors literally wrote the books about Frankenstein - he's convinced she really wrote it, and of course, as his student (he also taught my mother in undergrad) I agree, but there's this dillweed out there named John Lauritsen who's convinced that M. Shelly didn't write the book essentially because "a woman couldn't write it." If you're into literature, it's pretty fascinating. Lauritsen blows up the romantics list-serv about once a year clamoring on about how "clearly Percy Shelly wrote Frankenstein for his wife" and so on.