Dr. Maddy Pelling
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first heard May 2026
last heard 5 May
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Yeah.
So the other thing to say about him, and this is where the Frankenstein element comes in, is that he is performing every day in Bath.
So as well as electrocuting ladies when he's not doing that, he has a sort of side hustle as a showman in Kingston buildings, which is just... Oh, that's someone you want to seek medical advice from, isn't it?
Yeah, exactly.
And he has this show where he basically cranks up the galvanistic machine and he will electrocute a frog or a toad that's dead and he's cut it up with a scalpel and briefly its legs will come back to life and kind of move or contort or whatever.
And this is a well-known trick.
He was involved early in his career, so 10 years before this, in the electrocution of a man who'd murdered his wife and child in London.
And supposedly at that experiment, the man sat up on the bench and his eyes opened and one of his arms moved or something.
And you can see where I'm going with this, because at the end of 1816 into 1817, who is also in Bath living metres from where this guy's doing his experiments?
It's Mary Shelley.
She's finishing the manuscript of Frankenstein.
And we don't have records that she went to see his experiments and his shows, but she was literally like three doors down from him.
Yeah, and a little bit like Frankenstein and the Monster,
Wilkinson becomes involved with Princess Caribou.
And the question really is, who is the monster here?
Who is the liar?
Who is the victim?
And so he is brought in to Knoll for that summer and into the autumn.
And he starts to spend time with her.
Now, he doesn't electrocute her, which I think she was probably very grateful for.
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