Good morning,

Here is your occasional reminder to enjoy the best Hark A Vagrant comic, about some of the many problems Mary Shelley had:

She had a difficult life and still made the time to write an enduring classic and invent a genre:

[T[he need to support her surviving child and limits on her support from her father-in-law, Sir Timothy Shelley, made writing a practical need rather than a personal indulgence. […] The immense popularity of Frankenstein had been increased even more by several stage productions: Richard Brinsley Peake's Presumption; or the Fate of Frankenstein, which Shelley herself saw, was one of six different versions in 1823 alone. As she wrote to Leigh Hunt on 9 September, after seeing the drama: "lo and behold! I found myself famous." The title pages of all of her later novels carry the phrase "by the author of 'Frankenstein.'"

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley

Archival footage is always great and here is some of Emmeline Pankhurst and other suffragettes. Twenty seconds in the narrator says a monstrous regiment of women who threatened the very heart of the British Establishment, a wonderful sentence fragment.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/emmeline-pankhurst/query/suffragettes

Also, if you are in London, are you coming to the Pamflet thing on Monday 27th? It will be fun and I will be there.

http://thetroubleclub.com/event/launch-party-pamflet-issue-xiii-absent-in-the-spring/

Have a nice weekend,

Alex.