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LUNCH WITH BOOKS: Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley

October 30, 2018
12:00pm - 12:00pm

LUNCH WITH BOOKS: Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley

Part of the UPPER OHIO VALLEY FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

The author of Frankenstein welcomes you ...


"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?"

 

Teenage 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. Re-live the author’s process of creation. See how Mary painted her own personal experience with a vivid imagination to build this original and enduring work of science fiction.

A performance by Susan Marie Frontczak...

This program consists of a monologue in-character, followed first by a Q&A conversation with “Mary Shelley” and then by a Q&A with the scholar/presenter.

PLUS: In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley raises ethical questions that are, if anything, more pertinent today than they were in her lifetime: the Ethics of applying our scientific knowledge, and our Social Responsibility to the abandoned members of society. A discussion on bioethics -- how we can do today what Mary Shelley wrote as fiction -- will follow the program.

Note: An informal book discussion of Frankenstein will follow the program and bio ethics discussion.


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