Description
Step into the dark and dazzling world of Mary Shelley in this gripping illustrated talk marking 175 years since her death.
Hosted by Dr Andrew McInnes, Reader of Romanticism and co-director of EHU19 at Edge Hill University, this talk journeys through Shelley’s extraordinary life, from the radical influence of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, to secret meetings with Percy Bysshe Shelley in graveyards, and the stormy night that sparked one of literature’s most enduring monsters.
Don your cloaks, pull up a seat, and gather with us as we celebrate the life, death, and legacy of Mary Shelley.
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Dr Andrew McInnes
Dr Andrew McInnes is Reader in Romanticisms at Edge Hill University and Co-Director of EHU 19, the research centre in nineteenth-century studies. He is widely published in Romantic Studies, women’s writing, gothic fiction, and children’s literature. He is currently working on a critical edition of the Brontë sisters’ first collaborative publication, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846).
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