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Quotation from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
“The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials”
Frankenstein, Vol. I, Ch. III (1818) / Ch. 4 (1831) (1831 text)
Victor's account of where he obtained body parts; it evokes the trade in corpses that supplied early nineteenth-century anatomy schools.
Citation: "The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials" — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Vol. I, Ch. III (1818) / Ch. 4 (1831) (1831 text). (id frankenstein-q5)
Portrait: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Richard Rothwell, Public domain.
