Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein
Gothic town-house museum of Frankenstein's author, with an eight-foot creature and a dark basement.
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This guide to Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein in Bath goes back to the winter of eighteen sixteen, when Mary Godwin was lodging by Bath Abbey and writing the early chapters of Frankenstein. It follows the scandal around her household: the poet Percy Shelley, the wife he had left behind, and a stepsister carrying Lord Byron's child. Listen inside the house, close to the creature built from her own description.
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