Getting Dressed in 1816 - Mary Shelley

A Halloween special! How Mary Shelley dressed, and the story of how she created Frankenstein.
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Director/Cinematographer: Nicole Loven / crowseyeproductions
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Producer/Costumier: Pauline Loven / periodwardrobe
Mary Godwin/Shelley - Chelsie Jade Faulks www.spotlight.com/interactive...
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Maid - Lucy Wakefield / lucyewakefield
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Stephen Gillard
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Lord Byron - Michael Whelbourne
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Voice-over: Martha Milne / machinequilter
Music: Chris Gordon www.chrisgordon.info/
Make-up/hair: Liv Free / livfreemakeup
Hair stylist: Anita Cudbertson
Costume Assistant: Jasmine Clark
Thanks to:
Eran and Linda Bauer, for their kind hospitality

[@wrlSivan16]

The summer that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted causing a volcanic winter around the world. It was called "The year without summer." This weather change influenced her writing and without it we may have never had Frankenstein.

[@magicalgirlmercury7420]

My family is so pumped! Mary is my great aunt, and we take pride in anything to do with her.

[@embrenn365]

Seeing these dressing videos with an added element of diving into women's history, I think, brings forth the notion that there has always been amazing women who challenged, created, and broke through barriers. Peering into something so intimate as the clothes they wore gives us this tiny glimpse in their everyday lives, something which to us might seem eons away. Thank you so much for your hard work and dedication to this channel, I really enjoy every video you guys create!

[@Pikadumpling]

so your telling me Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein from a nightmare she had, and read it to a gathering of people in the 18th century? You learn something new everyday.

[@elainamccoulskey4976]

Please do French aristocrat!! I’ve got to know how the women made their skirts look like boxes!

[@meghabhattacharyya3502]

Mary Shelley died in 1851. How on earth would she marry in 1860?

[@susan1870]

I took a Literature by Women’s course in college years ago. We studied this. She always felt that the monster she had created was more than just fiction. She would say if she turned her head fast enough she might glimpse him behind her. He literally haunted her for the rest of her life. At least that is what we were told in the class. Fascinating if not extremely disturbing!!

[@uncuentofriki3635]

The mother of science fiction and postapocalyptic genre.

[@asingh5283]

Don't ever stop this series please!!!!!

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

I wish regency waistlines and fabrics came back. They are very cute and they look comfortable too.

[@thepepperpot3809]

That wardrobe in the room where Shelley gets dressed is gorgeous. I can't imagine who makes furniture like that anymore, and if some company out there does, they must charge tens of thousands of dollars for a piece like that one.

[@Rose-ef2cm]

“What terrifies me will terrify others”

[@andinarizkia]

Indonesia is located roughly 7000 miles from london. As an Indonesian, we've been told that our country is located in the ring of fire. Ancient Krakatoa (or Krakatau) eruption in 5th century caused the land that used to connect two islands to collapse, creating now a sea passage. I know Tambora was not as major as ancient Krakatoa, but to think that the effect traveled 7000 miles ad affected the whole world, it is pretty bone-shivering.

[@smp6565]

Incredible to think that a little weekend getaway for a group of friends, stuck inside cos of shitty weather would change the history of literature forever

[@dillancomtois]

Can you do a Bronte sisters video?

[@queenhamster488]

I love how here I am on my bed with just a over sized T shirt and underwear. Why have we decreased in our brains. Jk it’s just me

[@tobealostwanderer]

I love these videos with a story around the clothing. Same as with the Girl with the Pearl Earring. I actually learn alot by watching these videos. Like with the origin of when everything happened and thereby also look at what they wear, which I am facinated by. Great job on this video!!!

[@fionatanzer5270]

Regency clothing - empire line dresses - seem to be the most comfortable historical women's clothing between medieval and modern clothes. The stays looked small and practical for a start!

[@gregtaylor9331]

As an interesting foot note one of the other participants in the scary story "contest" was John William Polidori whose story "The Vampyre" gave rise to that particular form of the horror novel.

[@isla2593]

A lot of historic clothes are so practical.