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In this case, the sources were a professor of English at Exeter who wrote an intro to the book, and Mary Shelley expert Professor David Punter, of Bristol University.
http://archive.is/BEz2F
Yes. And as usual with a tabloid, they take one or two sentences from the source, and invent their own story around it.