Episode 13
The Conjurer
Featuring Charlotte Gordon
Audio episode · 16 min
Charlotte Gordon on Frankenstein
Before the series ends, one episode about how it was made. Charlotte Gordon researches the dead by haunting them: a hotel room below Mont Blanc that made her sick, a swim in the bay where Percy Shelley drowned, a Vicksburg guest room above an old morgue. She calls the method conjuring, and she can date it to a single afternoon in a Gloucester hair salon, where a medium looked at her and said one word about a neglected Puritan poet. What Anne Bradstreet wanted her to know changed every book she has written since, including this one.
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