Peggy Webling Author

Peggy Webling (1 January 1871 – 27 June 1949) was a British playwright, novelist and poet. Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum is a historian at the University of Wales Trinity St David, specialising in the history of astrology, cosmology and divination. Her publications include The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (2016) and ‘Abu Ma‘shar and the Tradition of Planetary Lots in Astrology', in Mastering Nature in the Medieval Arabic and Latin Worlds (2024). She is the great-grandniece of Peggy Webling, the playwright, and holds a private archive of her papers. She has lectured on the history of Webling’s Frankenstein for specialists and general audiences. Bruce Graver is Professor of English at Providence College, USA, specialising in British Romantic literature. He edited Wordsworth’s Translations of Chaucer and Virgil (1998), co-edited Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (2003), and has written and lectured widely about various British Romantic writers and 19th-century visual culture.