“There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I will indulge the other.”

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, was born on the 30th of August 1797 of radical parentage - the anarchist philosopher William Godwin & feminist author and activist Mary Wollstonecraft. She started writing her novel: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus when she was 18 on a rainy afternoon in Geneva, where she was staying with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their friend Lord Byron. Byron proposed they each write a gothic ghost story, but only Mary Shelley completed hers...

📷: Boris Karloff having a tea-break on the set on Frankenstein, 1933

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