'Frankenstein': Mary Shelley manuscript displayed in new exhibit (photos) -- A new exhibit opens this week at Oxford University's Bodleian Library in the UK. "Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family" will feature manuscripts and artifacts of both Mary Shelley, the author of the classic novel Frankenstein, as well as her husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, author of "Ode to the West Wind." Papers of Mary Shelley's literary parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, will also be on display.
The exhibit reunites the family's manuscripts and artifacts for the first time from the collections of both the Bodleian Library and the New York Public Library. Manuscripts include the originals of Frankenstein and "Ode to the West Wind." Artifacts include a spyglass belonging to Percy Bysshe Shelley and believed to have been onboard the Don Juan when the poet drowned.
Other artifacts are Percy Bysshe Shelley's baby rattle and a new portrait of Mary Shelley.
Papers and publications include a letter by poet John Keats, William Godwin's diary, Shelley notebooks, and rare printed books and pamphlets.
Accompanying the exhibit is a new book published by the Bodleian with the same title, Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family. The book will be available in mid-December.
"Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family" will be open at the Exhibition Room, the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, England from December 3, 2010 until March 27, 2011.
PHOTOS: See a slideshow with photos from the exhibit in the lefthand column of this page, or you can also see them here. Photos include: Manuscipt pages from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Percey Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," a new Mary Shelley portrait, Percy Bysshe Shelley's baby rattle and spyglass.
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