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Evidently you are a stranger to scandal Miss Godwin
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Mary Shelley

Evidently you are a stranger to scandal, Miss Godwin. Did you know I ran away with Percy...

Harriet Shelley:

Evidently you are a stranger to scandal, Miss Godwin. Did you know I ran away with Percy when I was a girl? Idealism and love give us courage. But they do not prepare you for the sacrifice required to love a man like Percy

Full Transcript

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Evidently you are a stranger to scandal Miss Godwin
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Did you know I ran away with Percy when I was a girl
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Idealism and love give us courage
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But they do not prepare you for the sacrifice
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required to love a man like Percy
Duration
22 seconds
Views
402
Timestamp in Movie
00:29:59
Uploaded
Mar 16, 2022
Genres
biography, drama, history
Production
HanWay Films,Gidden Media,Parallel Films,BFI,Ralfish Films,Bac Cinema,Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland,Film Fund Luxembourg,Head Gear Films,Metrol Technology

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Movie Summary

Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.

Actors
Harriet Shelley
Ciara Charteris
Evidently you are a stranger to scandal, Miss Godwin. - Mary Shelley 00:05
Evidently you are a stranger to scandal, Miss Godwin.
Did you know I ran away with Percy when I was a girl? - Mary Shelley 00:04
Did you know I ran away with Percy when I was a girl?
Idealism and love give us courage. - Mary Shelley 00:04
Idealism and love give us courage.
But they do not prepare you for the sacrifice required to love a man like Percy. - Mary Shelley 00:05
But they do not prepare you for the sacrifice required to lo...
If I see Mr. Shelley, I will let him know you are looking for him. - Mary Shelley 00:05
If I see Mr. Shelley, I will let him know you are looking fo...
Yes, I've been married for five years now. - Mary Shelley 00:04
Yes, I've been married for five years now.
However, Mrs. Shelley and I are man and wife in name... only. - Mary Shelley 00:05
However, Mrs. Shelley and I are man and wife in name... only...
I continue to provide for Harriet and my daughter Ianthe financially but that is all. - Mary Shelley 00:05
I continue to provide for Harriet and my daughter Ianthe fin...
...to bind husband and wife to cohabitation... - Mary Shelley 00:04
...to bind husband and wife to cohabitation...
I remember saying something like that when I was young. - Mary Shelley 00:04
I remember saying something like that when I was young.
How could you not speak of Harriet and Ianthe? - Mary Shelley 00:04
How could you not speak of Harriet and Ianthe?
My marriage was a mistake. I believed that I'd found in Harriet a kindred spirit. - Mary Shelley 00:06
My marriage was a mistake. I believed that I'd found in...
But time revealed only an empty, heartless cynicism that consumed the both of us... - Mary Shelley 00:05
But time revealed only an empty, heartless cynicism that con...
...for the first time since my marriage, I felt alive. - Mary Shelley 00:05
...for the first time since my marriage, I felt alive.
And had you known I was married, propriety would have gotten the better of you. - Mary Shelley 00:05
And had you known I was married, propriety would have gotten...
I promise you it can be very easy to say that, but it can be very different to live it. - Mary Shelley 00:05
I promise you it can be very easy to say that, but it can be...
- Which is what I challenge you to do now. - You challenge me to what? - Mary Shelley 00:04
- Which is what I challenge you to do now. - You challenge m...
- To do what your heart is telling you to do... - [SHUSHING] - Mary Shelley 00:07
- To do what your heart is telling you to do... - [SHUSHING]
...new air to fill our lungs. - Mary Shelley 00:04
...new air to fill our lungs.
[QUIET, DRAMATIC MUSIC] - Mary Shelley 00:07
[QUIET, DRAMATIC MUSIC]