Mary Shelley grave (30th August 1797 to 1st February 1851)

 

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.