Question

Read the passage.

At first I thought but of a few pages—of a short tale—but [Percy Bysshe] Shelley urged me to develop the idea at greater length. I certainly did not owe the suggestion of one incident, nor scarcely of one train of feeling, to my husband, and yet but for his incitement, it would never have taken the form in which it was presented to the world.

According to Mary Shelley in her introduction to Frankenstein, who persuaded her to write a longer version of her story?


Publishers of the Standard Novels


Dr. Darwin


Lord Byron


her husband, Percy

Answer 1

Her husband is the one who persuaded her to write more. 

Answer 2

Answer: D) Her husband, Percy.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from Mary Shelley's introduction to Frankenstein, we can see that she describes how she first thought of Frankenstein as a short tale, but Percy Bysshe Shelley (her husband) encouraged her to write a longer version of the story ("Shelley urged me to develop the idea at greater length"), so the correct answer to this question is option D.