Fiction   

Frankenstein

Character created by Mary Shelley in her eponymous book.

The Somers Town Mural supposedly shows "Head of Frankenstein". We can't see it in the mural but suspect that the head of Frankenstein's monster is what is actually depicted - a common error that we have smugly avoided in our picture.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Frankenstein

Commemorated ati

Mary Shelley

English Heritage Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, author of Frankenstein, lived here,...

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Percy & Mary Shelley

After their elopement in July 1814 the Shelleys lived here with Claire Clairm...

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Somers Town Mural

This mural was commissioned by the GLC in 1980 and moved to this site by St P...

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Other Subjects

Crunchy the Credit Crunch Monster
1 memorial
Les Miserables the musical

Les Miserables the musical

Originated in France as an album and then briefly as a show. Cameron Mackintosh got hold of it and the English show opened at the Barbican Centre in 1985.  Moved first to the Palace and then on 3 A...

Media, Fictional, Music / songs, Theatre

1 memorial
The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

Written by Kenneth Grahame, much of it based on a series of letters to he wrote to his son.  First published October 1908.

Fiction, Fictional, Literature

1 memorial
Henry Earlforward's bookshop

Henry Earlforward's bookshop

Bookshop in Arnold Bennett's 1923 novel "Riceyman Steps" set in Clerkenwell.

Fiction, Fictional

1 memorial
Amanda Grayson

Amanda Grayson

Mother to Ambassador Spock. From Fandom: Amanda is "An Earth woman living on a planet where love, emotion, is bad taste." Amanda Grayson was a Human teacher from Earth. She was the first wife of S...

Person, Cinema, Fictional

1 memorial