Time Period: 1780s

Age: 30s

Victor Frankenstein’s mother. A distant and conflicting memory to him, she was married to her father’s friend following his death, and subsequently was the one to arrange Victor and Elizabeth’s marriage on her deathbed, as her dying wish. Victor speaks of her lovingly and admirably, yet after her death, she haunts his nightmares. Letting this quote from the novel speak for herself, “I have often heard my mother say, that she was at that time the most beautiful child she had ever seen, and shewed signs even then of a gentle and affectionate disposition. These indications, and a desire to bind as closely as possible the ties of domestic love, determined my mother to consider Elizabeth as my future wife; a design which she never found reason to repent.”