'A 200-year-old secret': Plaque to mark Bath's hidden role in Frankenstein

The teenage Mary Shelley wrote much of the book in a boarding house in the city as she endured scandal and family crises

In December 1816 a teenager wrote to her lover from a lodging house in Bath that she had finished the fourth chapter of her book, “a very long one and I think you would like it”.

This year marks the bicentenary of the publication of that book, Frankenstein – famous in its day and ever since, interpreted in art, film, comics, ballet and music. The almost forgotten link between its creation and the city of Bath will be marked for the first time by a plaque to be unveiled on Tuesday.

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