ABSTRACT
[Mary Shelley] Frankenstein (1818); review by Walter Scott, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, II (March 1818), 613-620. Shelley arranged to have a copy of Frankenstein sent to Walter Scott, but in a manner that, he thought, would keep its authorship a complete secret. Scott, instead, thought Shelley was the author (p. 614). The volume of poems from which Scott quotes approvingly on page 620 is Shelley’s Alastor (1816). The “sapient Partridge” (pp. 613614) appears in Fielding’s Tom Jones as Tom’s servant (and supposed father).
