 "The Literary Panorama and National Register" attacks the novel as a "feeble imitation of Mr. Godwin's novels" produced by the "daughter of a celebrated living novelist".Despite the reviews, "Frankenstein" achieved an almost immediate popular success.It became widely known especially through melodramatic theatrical adaptations—Mary Shelley saw a production of "Presumption; or The Fate of Frankenstein", a play by Richard Brinsley Peake, in 1823.