Mary Shelley

  • 09.09 Leo Tolstoy

    09.09 Leo Tolstoy

    We don’t earn our faces. We don’t choose our symmetry, our hair, our height, our bone structure. Yet somehow we can end up treating the result as though it tells us something about character.

  • First 100 Words: ‘Frankenstein’

    First 100 Words: ‘Frankenstein’

    A patronising man on ‘mysterious and important’ work. What could possibly go wrong? Perhaps he shouldn’t ignore a woman’s intuition, for starters.