Her court ladies wear trousers and hair ornaments of controlled flame. She filled her world with foreseeable changes in technology, society, and even fashion. Unlike many early science fiction works (Shelley's The Last Man, and The Reign of King George VI, 1900-1925, written anonymously in 1763), Loudon did not portray the future as her own day with only political changes.
In some ways The Mummy! may be seen as her reaction to themes in Frankenstein: her mummy specifically says he is allowed life only by divine favour, rather than being indisputably vivified only by mortal science, and so on, as Hopkins' 2003 essay covers in detail. However, unlike the Frankenstein monster, the hideous revived Cheops is not shuffling around dealing out horror and death, but giving canny advice on politics and life to those who befriend him. In any case, at many points she deals in greater clarity with elements from the earlier book: the loathing for the much-desired object, the immediate arrest for crime and attempt to lie one's way out of it, etc. As Shelley had written of Frankenstein's creation, "A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch," which may have triggered young Miss Webb's later concept. Jane Loudon may have drawn inspiration from the general fashion for anything Pharaonic, inspired by the French researches during the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt the 1821 public unwrappings of Egyptian mummies in a theatre near Piccadilly, which she may have attended as a girl and, very likely, the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
In addition, it also features one of the earliest known examples of a "Mummy's curse". The novel borrows many themes and ideas from another popular science fiction novel written by a female author of the period, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, as well as ideas about a future filled with advanced technology.
It concerns an Egyptian mummy named Cheops who is brought back to life in the year 2126. The Mummy! : Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 novel written by Jane C.
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