Much like Mary Shelley, Jane Webb was a teenager mourning a death in her family when she decided to write her first novel. And much like Frankenstein, that novel laid the foundation for many features of science fiction. But The Mummy! is more than just an imitation… Sources: Jane Webb Loudon, The Mummy! unabridged from Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56426 … Continue reading 1827 – Jane Webb’s The Mummy! →