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Tonight we are having a dinner party
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Mary Shelley

Tonight we are having a dinner party

Tonight we are having a dinner party

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Tonight we are having a dinner party.
Duration
4 seconds
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29
Timestamp in Movie
00:50:53
Uploaded
Jun 30, 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.
Come here. Don't we deserve a little fun? - Mary Shelley 00:04
Come here. Don't we deserve a little fun?
...and has just published his first book. So I thought we would throw him a party... - Mary Shelley 00:06
...and has just published his first book. So I thought we wo...
Ma'am, how many guests are we expecting this evening? - Mary Shelley 00:04
Ma'am, how many guests are we expecting this evening?
Percy, there's no way we can afford to pay it back. - Mary Shelley 00:04
Percy, there's no way we can afford to pay it back.
Come on. Come here. Come. - Mary Shelley 00:04
Come on. Come here. Come.
[LAUGHING] - Mary Shelley 00:05
[LAUGHING]
I'm sorry it's not much of a celebration, Mr. Hogg. - Mary Shelley 00:04
I'm sorry it's not much of a celebration, Mr. Hogg...
We began writing a novel together back at Oxford but publishers deemed it too subversive. - Mary Shelley 00:05
We began writing a novel together back at Oxford but publish...
We had more success with our treatise which we wrote anonymously... - Mary Shelley 00:04
We had more success with our treatise which we wrote anonymo...
- '...The Necessity of Atheism'. - Because it was published? - Mary Shelley 00:05
- '...The Necessity of Atheism'. - Because it was ...
[LAUGHTER] - Mary Shelley 00:05
[LAUGHTER]
What's the point of being published if you don't have your name on it? Why bother? - Mary Shelley 00:05
What's the point of being published if you don't h...
Soon Mary will produce a work that will surpass all of us. - Mary Shelley 00:05
Soon Mary will produce a work that will surpass all of us.
How about you, Miss Clairmont? Do you write or are there other tricks you perform? - Mary Shelley 00:05
How about you, Miss Clairmont? Do you write or are there oth...
- Claire is an accomplished singer. - So she says. I'm yet to hear it. - Mary Shelley 00:06
- Claire is an accomplished singer. - So she says. I'm ...
She has spirit this one, I can see why you keep her. - Mary Shelley 00:04
She has spirit this one, I can see why you keep her.
# A sweet scented courtier did give me a kiss # - Mary Shelley 00:35
# A sweet scented courtier did give me a kiss #
- Would you care to wait? - I should like that very much, Mary. - Mary Shelley 00:04
- Would you care to wait? - I should like that very much, Ma...
Ledgers. But it might as well be Latin. - Mary Shelley 00:05
Ledgers. But it might as well be Latin.
- Are you schooled in Latin? - Yes, my father insisted upon it. - Mary Shelley 00:05
- Are you schooled in Latin? - Yes, my father insisted upon ...