While on
holiday in Bournemouth I went to look for the grave of Mary Shelley who wrote
the Gothic novel Frankenstein. She's in the Shelley family grave which is at
St Peter's Church not far from the centre and beach. After Mary's
death her box-desk was opened and inside was found a silk parcel containing
some of her husband’s ashes and the remains of his heart. After drowning he’d
been cremated on the beach but his heart refused to burn (probably due to being
calcified from a bout with tuberculosis) and taken to Mary in England.