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Mary Shelley " review by Lyn Gardner

West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsThe daughter of the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the radical philosopher William Godwin, Mary Shelley was brought up in a free-thinking household of ideas. But when, aged 16, she eloped with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelly, her father cut her off. Aged 18, she wrote Frankenstein, a novel dedicated to her father, about a man who creates a monster that only yearns for love…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 1:48pm on March 23, 2012

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