Program: Girls and Their Ghost Stories

Thursday, March 24, 2016, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Girls and Their Ghost Stories
 
How did the daughter of radical thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin produce, at the age of 18, the best known Gothic tale of all time?  
 
Join MWCC’s Daniel Soucy and Shelley Errington Nicholson for a discussion of the philosophical and political climate which influenced Mary Shelley in the writing of her classic novel, Frankenstein.
 
This talk is part of the Humanities Project series, 'Myths, Monsters, and Modern Science:  Frankenstein’s Legacy,” sponsored in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
 
Free and Open to the Public.
Light refreshments.