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Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Making machines: Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace

Join our experts in conversation as they consider the thinking of two great 19th century women writers exploring the boundary between human and machine
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries

An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Godwin and his historical context

A discussion of the historical period in which William Godwin was writing and the social and political pressures that he was working under at the time.
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Godwin and Frankenstein

How far did Godwin have an impact on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and what does it tell us about how she thought about his principles, and his life.
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Godwin's life and family

A discussion of Godwin's relationships with unconventional women; and his 'Victorian' attitudes towards his daughter, Mary Shelley and his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Introduction to William Godwin

The first part in this series gives a biography of the writer William Godwin, exploring his background and the key points from his life.
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In the months immediately following Shelley's death Mary lived at Albaro on the outskirts of Genoa. Her only regular companions were her young son, Percy Florence, and the journal she began on 2 October 1822.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In the months immediately following Shelley's death Mary lived at Albaro on the outskirts of Genoa. Her only regular companions were her young son, Percy Florence, and the journal she began on 2 October 1822.
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This is the letter Godwin wrote to Mary after hearing of Shelley's death.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This is the letter Godwin wrote to Mary after hearing of Shelley's death.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron.
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron.
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This great elegy was prompted by the news of the death of John Keats in Rome, and by Shelley's belief that Keats's illness was caused by the hostile notices his work had been given in the Quarterly Review.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This great elegy was prompted by the news of the death of John Keats in Rome, and by Shelley's belief that Keats's illness was caused by the hostile notices his work had been given in the Quarterly Review.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life'

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley worked on 'The Triumph of Life', a dark and visionary poem, while living at the Villa Magni.
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life'

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley worked on 'The Triumph of Life', a dark and visionary poem, while living at the Villa Magni.

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