Peggy Webling (1 January 1871 – 27 June 1949) was a British playwright, novelist and poet.Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum is a historian at the University of Wales Trinity St David, specialising in the history of astrology, cosmology and divination. Her publications include The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (2016) and ‘Abu Ma‘shar and the Tradition of Planetary Lots in Astrology', in Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds (2024). She is the great-grandniece of Peggy Webling, the playwright, and holds a private archive of her papers. She has lectured on the history of Webling’s Frankenstein for specialists and general audiences.Bruce Graver is Professor of English at Providence College, USA, specialising in British Romantic literature. He edited Wordsworth’s Translations of Chaucer and Virgil (1998), co-edited Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (2003), and has written and lectured widely about various British Romantic writers and 19th-century visual culture.

Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein will no doubt be a key resource for researchers and will help shape Frankenstein scholarship for the foreseeable future. I cannot imagine a future study of Frankenstein’s transmedia cultural history that doesn’t incorporate at least some of the insights from Graver and Greenbaum’s groundbreaking book.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I History and CommentaryChapter 1 Peggy Webling’s StoryChapter 2 The Other Woman who Created FrankensteinChapter 3 From Peake to Whale, and Webling’s Missing Link Part II Texts of Webling’s Frankenstein1927 Version, registered with the Lord Chamberlain on 25 November 19271928 Version, copyrighted with the US Library of Congress on 7 September 19281930 Prompt Script, performed in London 10 February–12 April 1930Appendix 1 Excerpts from Webling Letters concerning FrankensteinAppendix 2 Excerpt from Webling’s Unpublished Memoir, The Story of a PenAppendix 3 ContractsBibliography General BibliographySources from the Webling ArchiveIndex

Peggy Webling (1 January 1871 – 27 June 1949) was a British playwright, novelist and poet.Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum is a historian at the University of Wales Trinity St David, specialising in the history of astrology, cosmology and divination. Her publications include The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (2016) and ‘Abu Ma‘shar and the Tradition of Planetary Lots in Astrology', in Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds (2024). She is the great-grandniece of Peggy Webling, the playwright, and holds a private archive of her papers. She has lectured on the history of Webling’s Frankenstein for specialists and general audiences.Bruce Graver is Professor of English at Providence College, USA, specialising in British Romantic literature. He edited Wordsworth’s Translations of Chaucer and Virgil (1998), co-edited Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (2003), and has written and lectured widely about various British Romantic writers and 19th-century visual culture.

Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein will no doubt be a key resource for researchers and will help shape Frankenstein scholarship for the foreseeable future. I cannot imagine a future study of Frankenstein’s transmedia cultural history that doesn’t incorporate at least some of the insights from Graver and Greenbaum’s groundbreaking book.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I History and CommentaryChapter 1 Peggy Webling’s StoryChapter 2 The Other Woman who Created FrankensteinChapter 3 From Peake to Whale, and Webling’s Missing Link Part II Texts of Webling’s Frankenstein1927 Version, registered with the Lord Chamberlain on 25 November 19271928 Version, copyrighted with the US Library of Congress on 7 September 19281930 Prompt Script, performed in London 10 February–12 April 1930Appendix 1 Excerpts from Webling Letters concerning FrankensteinAppendix 2 Excerpt from Webling’s Unpublished Memoir, The Story of a PenAppendix 3 ContractsBibliography General BibliographySources from the Webling ArchiveIndex

Peggy Webling (1 January 1871 – 27 June 1949) was a British playwright, novelist and poet.Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum is a historian at the University of Wales Trinity St David, specialising in the history of astrology, cosmology and divination. Her publications include The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (2016) and ‘Abu Ma‘shar and the Tradition of Planetary Lots in Astrology', in Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds (2024). She is the great-grandniece of Peggy Webling, the playwright, and holds a private archive of her papers. She has lectured on the history of Webling’s Frankenstein for specialists and general audiences.Bruce Graver is Professor of English at Providence College, USA, specialising in British Romantic literature. He edited Wordsworth’s Translations of Chaucer and Virgil (1998), co-edited Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (2003), and has written and lectured widely about various British Romantic writers and 19th-century visual culture.

Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein will no doubt be a key resource for researchers and will help shape Frankenstein scholarship for the foreseeable future. I cannot imagine a future study of Frankenstein’s transmedia cultural history that doesn’t incorporate at least some of the insights from Graver and Greenbaum’s groundbreaking book.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I History and CommentaryChapter 1 Peggy Webling’s StoryChapter 2 The Other Woman who Created FrankensteinChapter 3 From Peake to Whale, and Webling’s Missing Link Part II Texts of Webling’s Frankenstein1927 Version, registered with the Lord Chamberlain on 25 November 19271928 Version, copyrighted with the US Library of Congress on 7 September 19281930 Prompt Script, performed in London 10 February–12 April 1930Appendix 1 Excerpts from Webling Letters concerning FrankensteinAppendix 2 Excerpt from Webling’s Unpublished Memoir, The Story of a PenAppendix 3 ContractsBibliography General BibliographySources from the Webling ArchiveIndex