Read the passage. at first i thought but of a few pages—of a short tale—but [percy bysshe] shelley urged me to develop the idea at greater length. i certainly did not owe the suggestion of one incident, nor scarcely of one train of feeling, to my husband, and yet but for his incitement, it would never have taken the form in which it was presented to the world. according to mary shelley in her introduction to frankenstein, who persuaded her to write a longer version of her story? publishers of the standard novels dr. darwin lord byron her husband, percy