 There are many similarities between Victor and Percy Shelley, Mary's husband.Victor was a pen name of Percy Shelley's, in the collection of poetry he wrote with his sister Elizabeth, "Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire".There is speculation that one of Mary Shelley's models for Victor Frankenstein was Percy, who at Eton had "experimented with electricity and magnetism as well as with gunpowder and numerous chemical reactions", and whose rooms at Oxford were filled with scientific equipment.