Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley: daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft; lover of Shelley; author of Frankenstein…

Helen Edmundson’s compelling play explores a crucial episode in the early life of Mary Shelley - her meeting and scandalous elopement aged sixteen with Percy Bysshe Shelley - and its consequences for her sisters, her stepmother and above all, her troubled father, the political philosopher William Godwin.

Discover the people and events that led her to write a novel that would leave the literary landscape forever changed.

This play includes brief mention of suicide and neonatal death.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books