This event at the Keats-Shelley House, Rome on 23rd July 2016 celebrates the bicentenary of the composition of Frankenstein (1818). The event will include readings of Romantic poetry and prose from the novel’s author Mary Shelley and her husband and collaborator, Percy Bysshe Shelley. There will also be two short academic talks by Dr David Higgins (University of Leeds) and Anna Mercer (University of York). The event will take place almost exactly 200 years after Mary Shelley began writing what is now the most famous novel of the Romantic period in July 1816. The same event will also take place a week earlier at the King’s Manor, University of York. Both events will be open to the public and tickets will be available online. More information is available on the event website: https://frankenstein1816.wordpress.com Please contact anna.mercer@york.ac.uk for any further enquiries.