Mary Shelley

28 April 2012: We had dinner with the Harms and went on to the Nottingham Playhouse for the play Mary Shelley, by Helen Edmundson. Very powerful and moving, and urged me to read up on the true story. Mary Shelley is famous as the writer of Frankenstein (at the age of 18). People with such powerful and creative minds always seem destined to suffer tragedy. On the face of it, Shelley seems to be in the wrong, seducing and eloping with an infatuated teenager... but without it, some great literature might never have been created. Its possible to find the entire text of Frankenstein on line, and the other books if you look a bit harder.

Find out more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/shelleybio.html

Here's the site from the theatre company Shared Experience, about their production of Mary Shelley.