So I’m finally on Bluesky, and I’ve already found it educational, cos someone on there posted this:
That’s from the opening credits of the 1931 Frankenstein, and, well… “Mrs Percy B. Shelley”? From memory I first saw Frankenstein back in 1991 but this is the first time I’ve ever discovered Mary being credited like that… I know that “Mrs husband’s name” naming convention was considered de rigueur by the early 1900s, but she wasn’t even credited as “Mrs Percy” in the book in her own lifetime; after publishing the book anonymously in 1818, she was identified as “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley” in the next printing a few years later. It looks particularly odd given that Peggy Webling is credited right next to her under her own name. The past is a confusing place at times, eh…
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