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![]() They are exactly what it says on the tin, talks in English (no surtitles or simultaneous translation). This is one of a regular series organised by the British Council, called Talks in English. It’s this real person, full of living contradictions, who often seems to be hollowed out from accounts of her life and of her circle.” She was a real person, sometimes paradoxical and at other times predictable, and as complicated to get to know as anyone else. Mary Shelley is not a fictional character. ![]() Her letters, journals and publications, and those of her friends and colleagues, tell us a great deal about what she actually felt and thought. "Mary Shelley deserves better than imaginative reconstruction: she deserves to be listened to. Two hundred years after the publication of her famous novel, Fiona Sampson wanted to find the real person: ![]() Originally scheduled for Friday 23 November, the talk was postponed due to illness.įiona Sampson, poet and writer, will talk about Shelley, the subject of her recent biography In Search of Mary Shelley, the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein.įor a long time, the teenage author of Frankenstein was hidden in the shadow of her creation, and that of her famous poet husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. ![]() ![]() The British Council in Paris will be hosting a talk by the author of a recent biography of Mary Shelley on 13 December. ![]()
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