Short answers, pulled from the story.
The novel Frankenstein was published anonymously on the 1st of January 1818. Mary Shelley was 20 years old at the time of publication, and the book was released by the London publishing house Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones.
The novel Frankenstein was written at the Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland during the summer of 1816. Mary Shelley later completed the work in a lodging house in Bath, England, finishing the first four chapters there before the final manuscript was ready for publication.
The scientific concepts in the novel Frankenstein were inspired by the work of Luigi Galvani and Giovanni Aldini, who used electricity to move the muscles of dead bodies. Mary Shelley attended lectures at Dr. Charles Wilkinson's laboratory and was also influenced by the theories of Erasmus Darwin and James Lind regarding the creation of life.
The creature in the novel Frankenstein is never given a name by his creator Victor Frankenstein to symbolize his status as an outcast and his rejection by society. Mary Shelley deliberately used terms such as wretch, monster, and creature to reflect the being's isolation and struggle to find a place in the world.
The 1931 film starring Boris Karloff made the name Frankenstein synonymous with the monster in popular culture. This usage is a misnomer because the creature in the original novel never bears the name Frankenstein, which belongs to his creator.