LUNCH WITH BOOKS: Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley
October 30, 2018
12:00pm - 12:00pm
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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