Mary Shelley Brings Frankenstein to Life

<p>June 10, 1816. A storm settles over Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Stuck inside a romantic villa, five writers grow restless. Then one of them issues a challenge: Who among us can write the most terrifying ghost story? The group includes two of the most accomplished poets of the day – Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. But it’s Percy's lover, Mary, who creates an enduring masterpiece: the novel <em>Frankenstein.</em> How did Mary Shelley draw from her life to write this harrowing story? And why have we been talking about it for more than two hundred years?</p><br><p>Special thanks to our guest, Charlotte Gordon, author of <em>Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft &amp; Mary Shelley.</em></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>