Mary Shelley: A Living History

Photo by Patricia Jarvis

We're pleased to invite you to the drawing room of author Mary Shelley as portrayed by Susan Marie Frontczak on Wednesday April 3rd at 7pm in the Community Room at the Library.
You are about to enter the mind and imagination of English writer Mary Shelley. Teen-age mother, behind-the-scenes supporter of social reform, romantic, and scholar, English writer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) may be best known as the author of Frankenstein, but there is much more to be learned about her, both personally and psychologically. Witness the author's creative process in action. Find out how Mary’s own life paralleled that of the abandoned Creature of her novel.  

“I shall give an answer to the question so very frequently asked me -
How I, then a young girl of eighteen, came to think of,
and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea as
Frankenstein?”

Program consists of a monologue in-character, followed first by a Q&A with “Mary Shelley” and finally a discussion with the scholar/presenter, Susan Marie Frontczak, during which we ponder how ethical questions raised in Frankenstein apply in today’s world of cloning, genetic engineering, and other life-changing technological advances. Free. For information call (603)746-3663. Presented by the Hopkinton Town Library with the support of the Hopkinton Public Library Foundation.