Henry Maudsley brief period in public and charitable asylums. In the same year he was appointed co-editor of the "Journal of Mental Science", an influential position he retained for 15 years. Maudsley was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and delivered their Gulstonian Lectures in 1870 on "Body and Mind". The text of Maudsley's lectures was studied carefully by Charles Darwin in the preparation of his "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" (1872). Maudsley was appointed Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at University College London from 1869 to 1879. Maudsley married John Conolly's daughter, Ann Conolly, in
The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein that while he argues that Mary Shelley was not well educated enough to have written "Frankenstein", his argument fails because "it is not a good, let alone a great novel and hardly merits the attention it has been given." Lauritsen replied that "Frankenstein" "is a radical and disturbing work, containing some of the most beautiful prose in the English language ... a profound and moving masterpiece, fully worthy of its author, Percy Bysshe Shelley." "The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein" received positive reviews from Jim Herrick in "Gay Humanist Quarterly", Hubert Kennedy in "The Guide", and Douglas Sadownick in "The Gay