The Real Mr Frankenstein - background information

Product and Publicity
This website advertises a non-fiction investigative biography of Sir Anthony Carlisle. The research for the book has been a fascinating journey, now shared, involving a detective type, iconographic analysis, of 18C art and literature, coupled with detailed searches of 18C and early 19C medical literature, seeking original sources to confirm and support each discovery as it emerged.

The research has uncovered a stunning new view of medical history where truth is verily shown as stranger than fiction; as this ebook assembles together, and logically interprets, historical facts from the 18C and 19C.

Major Discoveries
The major discoveries, and many minor ones, are supported by detailed and contemporary, artistic and literary evidence. The major ones, in order of discovery, are:
- That Carlisle wrote the Gothic novels previously attributed to a Mrs Carver.
- That famous men-midwives and anatomists of the 18C were responsible for many murders of pregnant women to obtain subjects for dissection.
- That Carlisle was the model for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Carlisle was a close friend of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and spent forty years trying to discover the secrets of muscular motion, i.e. to revive life. A cadaver, shown to be Mary's Creature, can even be seen, holding a shroud and rising from the dead, in the background of Carlisle's portrait.
- That William Hogarth's print The Reward of Cruelty depicts William Smellie MD in the process of being dissected by William Hunter MD and John Hunter MD. This being Hogarth's view of the appropriate punishment for Smellie's burking of pregnant women.
- That MMR and IMR statistics show Carlisle was correct to attempt to protect the role of 19C midwives.

Publicity Links
Papers on the first two conclusions have been accepted by specialist journals.
Romantic Textualities - Issue 19 (Winter 2009)
Journal of The Royal Society of Medicine - Anatomy and murder to order
Also carried by Royal College of Midwives - Reputation of obstetrics’ pioneers called into question
And Glasgow University Guardian, at the home of the Hunterian Art Gallery - http://www.glasgowguardian.co.uk/news/museums-namesake-exposed-as-murderer/

And featured by Denis Campbell in the Observer newspaper Read the original article.

Founders of British obstetrics 'were callous murderers'
together with a list of the blogs linking to it.


Other features about the JRSM paper are at The Daily Mail online
Pioneers of modern childbirth medicine 'were callous serial ...
and written by David Wilson in The Guardian -
From cure to kill
There have been favourable articles in The Big Issue in Scotland and The Big Issue Cymru.
The article has also been reported in Hungary
Sorozatgyilkosok alapították a brit nőgyógyászatot
In Spain
- EL MUNDO | Suplemento cronica 748 - ¿Padres de la Ginecología y ...
and in Portugal
De bestiais a bestas. Pais da obstetrícia terão sido assassinos em série

I have given radio interviews to the BBC Today Show, and to radio stations in Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland, Canada, and New Zealand.

Comments from Six Different Readers;
- Really enjoying your book although I'm only up to Chapter 9 so far. Very engrossing and fantastic detail and background.
- I must say I’m very impressed by how comprehensive and extensively researched it is.
- Many, many thanks, Don, impressive work.
- Very well done on a terrific piece of work.
- Congratulations on having had your journal articles published, and on the national articles. I'm convinced that will go a long way to adding credibility to your already outstanding work.
- Our writer, ..........., mentioned that he found your e-book on the subject very interesting and helpful,

Updates
The ebook is updated as new evidence emerges.The latest Edition has 460 pages, with many revisions, more evidence, more illustrations, and more sources. The download link is always for the latest version as the ebook is revised whenever new evidence comes to hand.

Those wishing to see other examples of my research can visit my main website at --- Artists and Ancestors --- Miniature Portrait Art Collection

Historical Implications

There is a great attention to detail in the ebook, supported by contemporary sources, as I felt it necessary to present a strong and honest case to historians and the medical profession. In the main conclusions, this research lays a new foundation for other historians to build upon.

Download Purchase Link
The latest Edition is currently available as a downloadable eBook version in PDF format containing over 300,000 words, 460 pages and 300 illustrations, at a modest price of £9.99 (GBP9.99). It is a non-fiction resource, meticulously researched, with over 1500 footnoted sources. To purchase a download via Paypal please click on the button.

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