Co-curators Dr Ruth Knezevich and Dr Thomas McLean display some of the first editions which will feature in the upcoming University of Otago exhibition. Literary talent ran through the Shelley family whose works would be highlighted in the exhibition, Dr McLean said. Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein, her mother Mary Wollstonecraft was an early feminist writer, and Mary Shelley's father William Godwin was a well-known philosopher of the time. Mary Shelley also married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. "We have great stuff from Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Percy Shelley but we don't have anything [from Mary Shelley].''

Source: Otago Daily Times November 19, 2016 17:02 UTC