Mary Shelley evening, the discussions turned to the nature of the principle of life. "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated", Mary noted, "galvanism had given token of such things". It was after midnight before they retired, and unable to sleep, she became possessed by her imagination as she beheld the "grim terrors" of her "waking dream", her ghost story: She began writing what she assumed would be a short story. With Percy Shelley's encouragement, she expanded this tale into her first novel, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus", published in 1818. She later described that summer in Switzerland as the moment "when I
Sub Rosa (novel) how Dawn manages to subvert expectations in the development of her novel, addressing significant issues revolving around gender, sexuality, and human rights. Later in the year, the novel was also selected by Bartley as one of the “Top 5 Novels of the Year.” Both Bartley and David Chau from "The Georgia Straight" similarly positively commented on Dawn's approach to imagination and memory as a means of achieving redemption in the novel. Sarah Pinder from "The Broken Pencil" magazine stated that despite being non-exhaustive in its representations of sex workers, "Sub Rosa" "definitely fills a void," as it "highlights sex workers