Tea. Toast. & Trivia.

S5 E5:  John Quinn on The Dundee Connection with Mary Shelley “I lived principally in the country as a girl and passed a considerable time in Scotland. I made occasional visits to the more picturesque parts; but my habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee. Blank and dreary on retrospection I call them; they were not so to me then. They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy. Mary Shelly, In the introduction to the 1831 edition, Frankenstein Welcome to Tea, Toast and Trivia. Thank you for listening in. I am your host, Rebecca Budd, and I am looking forward to sharing this moment with you. Who was Mary Shelley?  What is her connection to Dundee?  What influence did Dundee have on her writing of Frankenstein? I am delighted that I am travelling virtually to Dundee, Scotland where I am meeting up with John Quinn, writer, poet, and lyricist to discuss these questions. I invite