drawing
Drawing was a customary component of a standard gentlewoman's education in
the late eighteenth century: cf. Mary
Wollstonecraft's Vindication, Chapter 12. The oddity of its being
here singled out as Elizabeth's concern is that it was not a component of
Mary Shelley's Godwinian education. On the other hand, perhaps we are to
understand that this is Victor speaking, not Mary Shelley. This, then,
could be another aspect of the inherently sexist categorizing in which he
engages.
