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Work of electronic literature by Shelley Jackson

Patchwork Girl or a Modern Monster by Mary/Shelly and Herself is a work of electronic literature by American author Shelley Jackson. It was written in Storyspace and published by Eastgate Systems in 1995. It is often discussed along with Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story as an important work of hypertext fiction. "Shelley Jackson's brilliantly realized hypertext Patchwork Girl is an electronic fiction that manages to be at once highly original and intensely parasitic on its print predecessors."

The narrative is based on two books: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The first draft was produced for a Brown University course taught by George Landow. Patchwork Girl is categorized as a Borgesian structure of information, due to its non linearity. The work reflects the hypertext labyrinth originally expressed in Borges' "Garden of Forking Paths" since the choices in the narrative allow multiple paths of experience.

Patchwork Girl is a continuation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and therefore definitively a Gothic tale. There is much emphasis placed on the gruesome sewing together of Patchwork Girl and the functioning of her borrowed body. The structure and the content of the text closely reflect one another because of the piecing together of Patchwork Girl's physical self features in the narrative as well as the interactive element of the hypertext.

Patchwork Girl was shortlisted for the Electronic Literature Organization fiction award in 2001.