News about Mary Shelley

Shelley Cottage, named after the town's most prominent former resident, was part of a larger historic Grade II listed building when Mary and Percy Shelley purchased it in the early 19th century.

Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, is up for auction. Shelley Cottage, named after the town's most prominent former resident, was part of a larger historic Grade II listed building when Mary and Percy Shelley bought it in the early 19th century. The literary greats were born in 1818 and were then divided into four houses, including this three-story townhouse. This property, which is located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, will be auctioned with Savills on Wednesday for £565,000. The site is thought to have been occupied by a late 16th century home and was rebuilt in the 18th century as a single large town house. The Shelleys married in late 1816, after Percy's first wife's death, and then moved to Marlow in March 1817.

They are usually a blank canvas on which to create a scary Halloween mask. However, one farmer has grown a frightful pumpkin in the shape of Frankenstein's monster. Jenny Fyall spent five months growing them up to Halloween. The 44-year-old purchased the makeshift mold online and planted the seeds in April.

Anna Pursglove explains #gravetok, which has over 1.2 billion views on the internet so far. It's for anyone who is passionate about graves and cemeteries. Rosie Grant, a #gravetok influencer, made ice cream for a woman named Marian Montfort and left it on her gravestone, as she wrote about her grandmother.

Coralie Bickford-Smith's illustrations are popular. People have them as tattoos, which is actually true. Some people have a fox they drew on their chest while someone else wrote a letter advising her that they were considering getting a heart. The latter is influenced by a drawing she did for a cover of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; the center is small and blue, brimming with veins and arteries. Bickford-Smith is one of Penguin's in-house book cover designers and is responsible for the Clothbound Classics collection. She is unquestionably a celebrity in so far as someone from the book world can be a celebrity.

Erina Takahashi, the lead dancer of the English National Ballet, trades her performance costumes for the best of this season's couture, while still speaking out about her long-suffered feet.

The University of Florida is now offering 'Black Horror, White Terror,' a class for African American Studies students. Among others, students look at Frankenstein and Edgar Allen Poe's works. 'The Marxist and the feminist location' of Frankenstein will be investigated'in the'social and psychological context of the times.' Students will explore claims that Shelley's most popular monster 'parallels the racial stereotypes of the time.' The course also looks at how black writers have used the horror aesthetic to combat white constructions of Blackness in the horror/Gothic genre.'

Danny and Dani Do Italy's viewers were in hysterics on Sunday night's episode as the actor performed a dramatic monologue of fairy tales Goldilocks and the Three Bears. As they tried to broaden their cultural horizons, the former EastEnders cast member, 45, and his Love Island winner Dani, 26, were seen visiting The Bay of Poets, which is located in the northern Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Italy. The gulf, who has been lauded by wordsmiths Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and others, is one of the spoken word's greatest fans.

Bel Powley, the 31-year-old London-born rising star, shows no signs of slowing down this spring as Miep Gies, the upcoming film version of Everything I Know About Love. Bel's burgeoning career isn't the only highlight of her glamorous life. Douglas Booth, a fellow actress who appeared on the set of Mary Shelley in 2016, will be on the set this summer. Emma Appleton, her co-star on Everything I Know About Love, is also a besties with Gemma Chan, with the actor appearing as both her mentor and a close friend.

On Saturday, Dame Emma Thompson stunned her adopted son Tindy Agaba on a casual walk. As she bundled up against the cold weather, the Nanny McPhee 63 actress appeared to be enjoying a morning stroll. With a grey sweatshirt and chenille trousers, she kept it casual.

An 86-year-old grandmother died in her own home, according to police. Bez Purdy (left) a church warden, was found bludgeoned to death at her country home, where police had been alerted to a home invasion that was still in progress. The perpetrator was identified as a missing person by Avon and Somerset Police before Mrs Purdy was discovered dead at her house in Broomfield, near Taunton. According to a police spokesperson, the detained man in his 30s was missing from a mental health unit, but not a secure mental health unit.

Beryl Purdy, a 'highly respected' church warden, is alleged to have been assaulted inside her farmhouse. The 86-year-old grandmother was discovered dead at her country house, where police had been alerted to a robbery that had taken place. According to an eye witness, she had 'clearly been struck hard across the head' and was discovered'slumped on the ground and not moving in a pool of blood.' A local man was arrested in connection with the shooting, sectioned and taken to a secure mental health center.

Paul Grant's tragic death has reignited curiosity in the furry band of brothers (left) who played Ewoks alongside him. Many of the forgotten stars of the hit film franchise are sweating in hot costumes to produce some of science fiction's most memorable alien races (lower right). The bulk of them are less than four foot tall, but some of them have gone on to appear in major films and TV series (top right).

OSCAR CAINER: There are reasons to celebrate as Venus (planet of love and harmony) is poised to enter peace-loving Pisces. The cosmos encourages us to forget our differences and come together to express our passions. If we admit mistakes, it could be a chance to resolve divisions and build stronger communities. We move toward a more united world as we rise above divisive topics.

According to scientists, there is a one in six chance of a mega-volcano happening before the end of the century, and that may have traumatic consequences for mankind. Dr Mike Cassidy, a volcanologist from the University of Birmingham, and Dr Lara Mani, a researcher at Cambridge University's Centre for Existential Risk, made the sad prediction.