Mary Shelley

by Lynn Shepherd "When I placed my head upon the pillow, I did not sleep…. My imagination, unbidden, possessed and…

scratch1st January 2015

by Catherine Redford One glorious summer’s day in 1816, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley stood together on the shores…

scratch6th November 2014

by Alison Kinney Terror, nausea, and the solitary slog of patching together cold, dead bodies in the workshop: Mary Shelley’s…

scratch31st August 2014

by Barry Forshaw ‘It’s alive! It’s alive!’ gasps the English actor Colin Clive, working himself into a paroxysm over the…

scratch28th June 2014

By Lesley McDowell "I have just got your amusing letter (no one writes such good letters as you do)...I have…

scratch28th March 2014

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