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Photo of Emily Franklin by Tom Short, book cover provided by publisher
Date and time
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Virtual:
7pm
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$0-$60
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Beyond the Page invites you to a captivating evening with Emily Franklin, the bestselling author of The Lioness of Boston. Join us as she unearths the story behind her newest novel, Love & Others Monsters, in conversation with fellow author and award-winner, Ben Shattuck.

The untold origin story of Frankenstein, a feminist reckoning of sisters, survival, and the creation of monsters… 

Love & Other Monsters is the story of Claire Clairmont, the younger stepsister of Frankenstein author, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. It was Claire who, during one stormy and scandalous summer, changed the course of literature —only to be forgotten by history.

Step behind the scenes with Franklin and Shattuck as they delve into a story of love, lust, art, and betrayal.

TICKETS 

Virtual Admission — $0 Attend the live conversation on April 28th. BTP Bundle — $60 Attend the live conversation and receive the book, shipped straight to your door. This ticket includes: 

  • Virtual admission to the live program on April 28th
  • A SIGNED copy of Love & Other Monsters by Emily Franklin 

GBH Membership (includes access to PBS Passport)

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Emily Franklin
Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of twenty-five books including a poetry collection, Tell Me How You Got Here. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, Guernica, and The Journal of the American Medical Association, among many other places, as well as featured and read aloud on National Public Radio, named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries, and longlisted for the London Sunday Times Short Story Award. Her novel The Lioness of Boston, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner, is in its eleventh printing and was recently featured as a clue on Jeopardy!. She grew up half in the UK and half in Boston where she lives with her spouse and four children. Her novel Love & Other Monsters, historical fiction told from the perspective of Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley’s forgotten stepsister who was integral in the creation of Frankenstein, will be published in April 2026.
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Ben Shattuck
Ben Shattuck's most recent book, The History of Sound (Viking), was the recipient of the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, and was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His film adaptation of the title story premiered at the 2025 Cannes film festival. His first book, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau (Tin House), was a New Yorker Best Book of 2022, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, a New England Bestseller, and was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is a recipient of the PEN Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a Pushcart Prize. He spends time between Brooklyn and coastal Massachusetts, where he owns and runs the oldest general store in America, built in 1793.

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