Before the monster, there was a teenage girl with a nightmare.
A drama telling the story of the life of the writer of Frankenstein; the 19-year-old Mary Shelley. Telling of her influences, her writing and her personal life. The extraordinary story of how she created Frankenstein, one of the world's most terrifying monsters.
Acting
Harriet Walter brings Mary Wollstonecraft's ghost to devastating life.
Production
Intimate sets capture cramped, intellectually feverish Shelley-Godwin household.
Director
Mary Downes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 1816 'Year Without a Summer' following Mount Tambora's eruption trapped the Byron-Shelley circle indoors, sparking the ghost story contest that birthed Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley published anonymously; many believed Percy wrote it. This documentary explicitly frames her authorship as radical reclamation.
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