This essay reads Shelley Jackson`s Patchwork Girl as a hypertext rewriting of Mary Shelley`s Frankenstein and argues that the distinctive achievement of Jackson`s work can be understood in terms of her virtuoso manipulations of both literary and hypertext frames. Previous interpretations of Jackson`s hypertext novel have not taken seriously enough the relevance of Mary Shelley`s novel to our understanding of Jackson`s work. This essay offers a corrective via a narratological analysis of frame structure in both Shelley`s and Jackson`s works. If Shelley uses frame narratives to emphasize the dramatic function of narrative and to invite questions about narrative closure and form, Jackson uses hypertext window frames to comment on the limits of Shelley`s work and to dismantle linear narrative form and language in a radical way. Through her manipulation of hypertext frames, Jackson defines femininity in rhetorical terms as metalepsis, the unmediated transition between different narrative levels as well as narrative times. Jackson also uses the fragmentary form of hypertext lexia to parody in both comic and grotesque fashion the fragmentation of the female body by the male oedipal gaze. While not all hyperfiction can be summed up as feminist in design and intent, Jackson`s hypertextual feminism suggests intriguing ways in which hypertext can be mobilized for feminist literary practice.