Early Reviews
Frankenstein received a number of reviews in the periodical press
on its appearance in 1818:
- The Quarterly Review, January 1818,
by John Wilson Croker
- La Belle Assemblée, March
1818
- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March
1818, by Walter Scott
- The British Critic, April 1818
- The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary
Miscellany, 1818
- The Gentleman's Magazine,
April 1818
- The Athenaeum, November
1831 (written 1817), by Percy Bysshe
Shelley
- "The Anniversary," in Knight's
Quarterly Magazine (1824)