Mary Shelley: Frankenstein [Book Club]

Mary Shelley published Frankenstein anonymously in 1818. She was
later credited for her work, but the book's origin story is just as
interesting as the novel itself. In the "year without a summer" of
1816, Mary joined her husband Percy and Lord Byron for a weekend
away, where the scared each other with ghost tales. They came up
with a challenge to see who could write the creepiest story of
their own, and Frankenstein was born. I sat down with Rachael
Marsay, the Roy Davids Archivist of Modern Literary Archives and
Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries, to discuss the creation of
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