The Haunting of Mary Shelley
Celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s gothic classic, Frankenstein, with an evening of music dedicated to this novel. Music written & performed by Valentine Wolfe.
It is said that Poe credits his inspiration to Mary Shelley. In a letter found, Poe writes to Ms. Shelley:
“When I was 10 or 11 years old I attended the Reverend John Bransby’s Manor House School outside London. Chief in my memories of the place — and little else I must admit — were the libraries available to me then, filled with the most wonderful volumes both classic and contemporary. It was there that I became acquainted for the first time with the triple-decker of your novel, Frankenstein. Of course, since that missive was published anonymously it was not until many years later that I knew to whom I owed such inspiration as I have drawn from it throughout my life.
For indeed it has been and always will be a great inspiration to me. While some of my works have a tendency toward the macabre (as I flatter myself you may have heard), none I would wager have ever had an effect on another person as compelling as your novel has had on me. I would, in fact, go so far as to state that had the young Edgar Poe never stumbled across your novel at such an impressionable age and loved and feared it so, then the older Edgar Poe might never have written a word — and certainly not the words with which I am most closely associated.” Edgar Poe
Join us and enter into The Haunting world of Mary Shelley for a night….
Music starts at 9 p.m….
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