The Hunting of the Snark based on a draft by Lewis Carroll, the Snark was allowed to show up in an illustration by Henry Holiday, where it appeared in a dream of the Barrister. The illustration to the chapter "The Banker's Fate" might contain pictorial references to the etching "The Image Breakers" by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder, to William Sidney Mount's painting "The Bone Player" and to a photograph by Benjamin Duchenne used for a drawing in Charles Darwin's "The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals". Upon the printing of the book on 29 March 1876, Carroll gave away eighty signed copies to his
The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein is a 2007 book written and published by John Lauritsen, in which the author argues that the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, is the real author of "Frankenstein" (1818), that the novel "has consistently been underrated and misinterpreted", and that its dominant theme is "male love". Lauritsen maintains that handwriting cannot be used to determine the actual author of "Frankenstein". His work received positive reviews in gay publications. However, some commentators in other publications rejected Lauritsen's views and supported the conventional view that "Frankenstein" was written