What did/does Frankenstein and women artists have in common during the 19th century?

Question

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Answer 1

Women artists -- actually, any woman who tried to be anything other than a wife and a mother -- were seen as freaks and treated as outcasts in the early 19th century.

For a woman to have creative talent (other than for fancy needlework or languid, ladylike sketches of her children) was a gross abnormality, a monstrosity, an aberration.

I suggest you read Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own." It's a short read and states clearly the obstacles women writers, artists, musicians and sculptors faced if they were foolish enough to try and follow their muses outside the domestic sphere.

Answer 2

The previous answer was well thought out and is accurate. I would only add that the novel "Frankenstein" was written by a woman, Mary Shelley, and may have changed some minds.