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I've never read such a perfect encapsulation
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Mary Shelley

I've never read sucha perfect encapsulation

I've never read such
a perfect encapsulation

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I've never read such a perfect encapsulation...
Duration
5 seconds
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33
Timestamp in Movie
01:39:56
Uploaded
Jul 01, 2025
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.
I wonder - Mary Shelley 00:12
I wonder
[ECHOING VOICES] Dear Madam, thank you for sending us your manuscript... - Mary Shelley 00:32
[ECHOING VOICES] Dear Madam, thank you for sending us your m...
The Lackington Group will publish it. 500 copies will be printed. - Mary Shelley 00:06
The Lackington Group will publish it. 500 copies will be pri...
It will be published anonymously, provided you write the introduction. - Mary Shelley 00:05
It will be published anonymously, provided you write the int...
Well, of course. I'd be delighted. - Mary Shelley 00:04
Well, of course. I'd be delighted.
How is it possible that you still don't understand? - Mary Shelley 00:04
How is it possible that you still don't understand?
You want me to abandon my claim to it because my gender might spoil its success. - Mary Shelley 00:05
You want me to abandon my claim to it because my gender migh...
Not once do you ever think about the consequences of your actions! - Mary Shelley 00:05
Not once do you ever think about the consequences of your ac...
You bear just as much responsibility for our life as I. - Mary Shelley 00:04
You bear just as much responsibility for our life as I.
I'm not some grand architect of our misery, Mary. - Mary Shelley 00:05
I'm not some grand architect of our misery, Mary.
I bear the responsibility of ever believing in you! - Mary Shelley 00:05
I bear the responsibility of ever believing in you!
- You look... - Like I've seen better days? - Mary Shelley 00:05
- You look... - Like I've seen better days?
Yes. His shop is stocking my work. - Mary Shelley 00:04
Yes. His shop is stocking my work.
- You finished it. - Not quite. - Mary Shelley 00:04
- You finished it. - Not quite.
- Lord Byron? - I'd all but forgotten about it until... - Mary Shelley 00:04
- Lord Byron? - I'd all but forgotten about it until...
...Byron's publisher somehow got ahold of it and printed it as his. - Mary Shelley 00:05
...Byron's publisher somehow got ahold of it and printe...
I tried to assert my rights as the true author but in response... - Mary Shelley 00:04
I tried to assert my rights as the true author but in respon...
I will write to Byron and appeal to him to tell the truth. - Mary Shelley 00:04
I will write to Byron and appeal to him to tell the truth.
...the blood-sucking devourer of souls and he gets all the credit. - Mary Shelley 00:05
...the blood-sucking devourer of souls and he gets all the c...
While you wrote about a desperately lonely and abandoned creature. - Mary Shelley 00:05
While you wrote about a desperately lonely and abandoned cre...