Those who choose to view the notebooks in their original page order will note the presence of two leaves unrelated to Frankenstein except by physical juxtaposition, the text of a fragment in Mary Shelley’s hand concerning the Persian king, Cyrus the Great (MS Abinger c.56 and MS Abinger c.57 ). The draft of Frankenstein can therefore be accessed in S-GA in three different forms: (1) in the virtually reconstituted form of original Notebooks A and B (2) in the physical sequence of MS Abinger c.56 and c.57 and (3) in the linear chapter sequence of the two-volume draft as presented below. Complicating the textual condition of the draft material: the division of pages between Notebooks A and B does not correspond with their disbound form as manuscripts c.56 and c.57, which instead echo the divisions between Volumes I and II of the two-volume novel. In doing so, she used two notebooks (A and B) whose disbound pages survive as Bodleian MS Abinger c.56 and c.57. Shelley (PBS), into the draft of a two-volume novel in 1816-1817. She recast this early work, with the collaboration of Percy B. MWS’s own original story and further early drafts are no longer extant.
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