Today we are in conversation about the life of English novelist Mary Shelley, who wrote the book Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. A book that is considered in part a Gothic novel and in part, a philosophical novel. We discuss Mary Shelley’s work and her relationship to her mother, the highly influential eighteenth century feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft who died ten days after Mary Shelley’s birth.
Guest: Lyndall Gordon is a senior research fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford and an award-winning biographer. She is the author of many books including her latest, Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World.