in response to William Verder's "The Women of Frankenstein"

From reading William Verder's "The Women of Frankenstein" certain new observations happened to befall me.
Firstly, that the readership of Shelley's would certainly have been repulsed by both the Catholics and Judiciary. Being English citizens, they would naturally have been raised in a protestant environment where justice for the common man was perhaps harsher than necessary to maintain civil stability.
Secondly, the women of Frankenstein, though perhaps somewhat bland to modern tastes and sensibility, are not necessarily weak per se, but rather, are faced against a necessarily ludicrous world that seems to have it in for all of these women. The world around them is impossibly cruel and unfeeling to such injustice.
Thirdly, Catholic presence inside of one of the highest Bastions of Protestantism is actually quite strange to say the least. While the church does not play as much of a role here as it might in other Romanticist works, the fact that a Catholic should be so distinctly mentioned is somewhat strange, in retrospect.