Behind Bars: Writing Prisons

Behind Bars: Writing Prisons

by | Feb 7, 2018 | Articles by Anna

I’ve spent quite a bit of time in prison. Admittedly, not as an inmate, but as a solicitor visiting clients. My first training ‘seat’ was in the Home Office Prisons Team, defending cases brought by prisoners in person. Later, I left Government to bring claims...
Did Mary Shelley Keep Percy’s Heart?

Did Mary Shelley Keep Percy’s Heart?

by | Feb 5, 2018 | Articles by Anna

At the end of August, Percy Bysshe Shelley spoke to me from the grave. Via Twitter. On Mary Shelley’s birthday, I’d tweeted that she’d out-gothed us all by keeping Shelley’s heart after he died. Up pops Shelley to correct me. No, he says, the heart couldn’t have...