Sunday, June 14, 2015

Mary Shelley - Redhead

A while back we mentioned the possibility that the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was a redhead, and we showed a portrait of him as a child with gingery hair (pictured below).  We now have some evidence that his wife Mary Shelley, author of the novel Frankenstein, was also red-haired.  The portrait below, under her husbands, shows her with reddish hair.  Also a book titled Mary Shelley: Frankenstein's Creator - The First Science Fiction Writer by Joan Kane Nichols mentions her hair colour.  She described her thusly;

In her early teens, pale and pretty with delicate features and almond-shaped eyes that changed from gray to hazel under a cloud of light reddish-brown hair.