Who were the Romantics? And how did they shake up society and culture at the turn of the 19th century? Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, Daisy Hay answers your top questions on the rebellious literary movement whose members’ lives were as unconventional as their art, touching on the intense but difficult collaboration between Wordsworth and Coleridge, the outrageous reputation of Lord Byron, and the literary significance of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

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Daisy Hay is the author of Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives (Bloomsbury, 2011)

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Regency culture, with Dr Lizzie Rogers – watching time 12 mins

Everything you wanted to know about Jane Austen's England –reading time 7 mins

Becoming Jane Austen – reading time 4 mins

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: the birth of a gothic monster – reading time 6 mins

How to survive a Regency marriage – reading time 7 mins

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Ellie CawthornePodcast editor, HistoryExtra

Ellie Cawthorne is HistoryExtra’s podcast editor. She also contributes to BBC History Magazine, runs the podcast newsletter and hosts several live and virtual BBC History Magazine events.

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