Hello and welcome to Queer As Fact. I'm Alice. I'm Eli. I'm Irene. We're a queer history podcast

talking about people, places and things in queer history from around the world and throughout

time. We are very excited today because the 1st of April is Queer as Facts first birthday.

Thank you everyone who's been listening to our podcast over the last year. We really appreciate you.

And we hope you enjoy the next year and hopefully many more of Queer's Fact. Today I'll be

talking about Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Before we start, I would just like to thank the Mad Prince of Denmark on Tumblr for recommending Mary Shelley to us and alerting me to the fact that she was queer.

Before we get into the actual episode, I have some content warnings.

We're going to be talking about suicide, mental illness and drug abuse.

There's also several drownings and several mentions of miscarriage, abortion, and the death

of young children.

There's also a relationship with our very large age gap, some explicit sexual content,

and the death of several animals.

So if any of that is something you don't want to hear, feel free to skip this episode

and listen to any of our other episodes.

They have content warnings at the start of all of them.

Mary was born in 1797 in the countryside outside of London.

Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, who has been referred to as the mother of feminism.

I'm assuming you've heard of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Yes.

I have. has been referred to as the mother of feminism. I'm assuming you've heard of Mary Wollstonecraft. Yes.

I have.

Yeah, she wrote a lot about the rights of women and especially about education for girls.

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