Contemporary Reviews 

Reviews for:

 Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1818)

 The Belle Assemblée, or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine 17 (March 1818): 139-142.

 The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany: A New Series of "The Scots Magazine" 2 (March 1818): 249-253.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 2 (20 March/1 April 1818): 613-620. Written by Walter Scott.

 The British Critic, n.s., 9 (April 1818): 432-438.

The Literary Panorama and National Register, n.s., 8 (1 June 1818): 411-414.

 The Quarterly Review 18 (January 1818): 379-385.


Presumption; or The Fate of Frankenstein (Richard Brinsly Peake's adaptation of Frankenstein):

 The London Morning Post: Tuesday, 29 July, and Wednesday, 30 July, 1823.


Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (London: G and W.B. Whittaker)

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, XIII (March 1823), p. 283-293.


The Last Man (London: Henry Colburn):

The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c. 473 (18 February, 1826): 102-103.

The Monthly Review, Or Literary Journal, n.s. 1 (March 1826): 333-335.

 The Panoramic Miscellany, or Monthly Magazine and Review of Literature, Sciences, Arts, Inventions, and Occurences 1 (March 1826): 380-386. 


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