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Daisy Hay

Daisy Hay is the author of Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron, and Other Tangled Lives (2010) and Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance (2015). In September 2018, she will publish a short biography of Frankenstein with Bodleian Library Publications. icon

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Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” @200

By Daisy Hay

If you walk through the streets of central London, it won’t be long before you come across one of the city’s famous blue plaques. The markers are visually ...

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