Interviewed by Megan King

• Is it fair to see radicalism and great thinking as almost a part of Shelley’s genes?

• To what extent would you say the themes of travel and lost feature in Shelley’s life as well as in her work?

• In what ways was the novel Frankenstein a revolutionary work?

• Should we think of this work as sort of the wider upheavals that were happening in the world during this age of revolution?

• What causes did Shelley go on to support in her life?

• What does her career tell us about how female thinkers and writers participated or influenced historical change?