A radio play exploring the introduction of Percy Bysshe Shelley into the Godwin household c. 1812.
Fanny Imlay was one of Godwin's two stepdaughters, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and Gilbert Imlay. She was left behind when Shelley eloped with Mary and her stepsister Claire Clairmont in 1814: she later committed suicide, in part, it is said, at her continued isolation from the Shelley household.
Was one of the winners of an ABC competition for 'original plays and sketches by Australian writers, suit able for broadcasting'. The first prize went to James Bradford, a Queensland writer, for The Puppet. Dann's play won one of the supplementary prizes.
See 'Original Plays', Examiner, 21 November 1934, p.7.
First broadcast on 7 February 1935, as part of a double-bill with another play form the competition: 'Beauty's Lure' by Leonore Drexler.
Characters: 'William Godwin, a philosopher known as "The Sage of Skinner-street;" Mrs. Godwin, his second wife; Mary Godwin, his daughter by his first wife, Mary Wollstonecraft; Jane Clairmont, [sic] Mrs. Godwin's daughter by her first husband; Fanny Imlay, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and Gilbert Imlay, adopted by the Godwins; Percy Bysshe Shelley, a rising young poet.' ('On the Air', Central Queensland Herald, 31 January 1935, p.57.)
