Show Notes
Mary Shelley in Bath. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin finished writing Frankenstein while lodging in Bath and attending lectures on electricity and galvanism. We visit the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and the recently opened Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein with the neuroscientist Anil Seth (author of Being You) and the poet and biographer Fiona Sampson (In Search of Mary Shelley), discussing Romantic literature, early nineteenth-century science and the mystery of consciousness.
Penguin Classics edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55587/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley-ed-maurice-hindle/9780141439471 https://apple.co/47HB0DU
Penguin audiobook edition of Frankenstein, read by Peter Noble and Colin Salmon https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/55587/frankenstein-by-shelley-mary/9780241422625 https://apple.co/3us6tvv
Anil Seth https://www.anilseth.com/
Being You by Anil Seth (Faber) https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571337729-being-you/ https://apple.co/40QlhQQ Audiobook: https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571360550-being-you/ https://apple.co/46t21tQ
Fiona Sampson https://twitter.com/FionaRSampson
In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson (Profile) https://profilebooks.com/work/in-search-of-mary-shelley-the-girl-who-wrote-frankenstein/ https://apple.co/49T6f0A Audiobook: https://www.wfhowes.co.uk/title-details/9781528851244 https://apple.co/46t274G
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution https://www.brlsi.org/
Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein https://www.houseoffrankenstein.com/
St Mary’s Churchyard https://www.stmaryschurchyard.com/
Presenter – Henry Eliot: https://www.henryeliot.co.uk/ Producer – Andrea Rangecroft: https://www.andrearangecroft.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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