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Or sign-in if you have an account Roberta Kilbourn can remember driving down Hamilton Road when she saw the face on a billboard and the words: Missing A car honking behind her got her moving again she thought and she pulled around to take another look Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience dating back to when she was a group home worker and Desrochers was the sweet and naive member of a crew of “her girls.” she and Desrochers would re-connect and spend time together a 42-year-old mom struggling with addiction and sometimes working in the sex trade Her sister Laura Desrochers and Kilbourn are planning another poster campaign Her sister and she were in the foster care system off and on their entire childhoods their mother frequently unable or unwilling to take care of them “She couldn’t handle it sometimes financially or mentally She would go off on these tangents and things wouldn’t be good we were in and out of foster homes until we were eight or 10 and a judge finally decided it wasn’t working with our mom.” fascinating real estate market is brought into focus and into context with this newsletter you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc The next issue of Homes in London will soon be in your inbox Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. The judge made them Crown wards, in the care of and supposedly protected by the province. From foster care they went to group homes, where they met Kilbourn. “When you’re older and you start running away and misbehaving, then you go to a group home. That’s how it works,” Laura Desrochers says. Kilbourn started working in London group homes in 1985. Shelley was 12 and Laura was 14. “Shelley had this most incredible smile, which would get her out of trouble. She was like a blonde-haired little girl and would giggle and was so naive,” Kilbourn says. “Everybody loved Shelley in the group home, all the workers, everyone else. She never got beat up. She never got any of that bad stuff.” But she was always running, Kilbourn says. On the streets, men took advantage of her age and paid her to run drugs and money, knowing a juvenile wouldn’t get thrown in jail if she was caught, Kilbourn remembers. “I was always on the streets looking for her,” Kilbourn says. “I lived downtown because when my kids went AWOL, I would go out in my van and see them, roll open the door, throw them in.” Laura Desrochers tried to keep her sister out of trouble and tried to get her to go to school. She’s now a personal support worker technician, assisting nurses with patients. She’s not sure why her sister Shelley took such a different path. “I don’t know what the answer is. I think maybe her habits just took her under. She got carried away.” By the time she was 17 and out of the group home system, Desrochers was working in the sex trade in Toronto. Her interactions with a Toronto police officer led to criminal charges against him – obtaining sexual services from a minor, breach of trust and attempting to obtain sexual services by threats. He was acquitted after a trial in which contradicting statements he made were ruled inadmissible because investigating officers hadn’t advised him of his right to counsel. Desrochers testified at trial that the officer wanted to meet her for sex and threatened to jail her. The officer testified he was trying to get her off the streets. Those who knew her shake their heads at the thought of Desrochers pushing back against a police officer and testifying in court. Perhaps it was her pimp boyfriend at the time running her life. “She was so naive, so trusting. She was always that ray of sunshine, thinking that when one door closed, another one opened and it’s going to be sunshine and lollipops. But she was hard on herself when she started realizing her mistakes,” Kilbourn says. Over the years, she and Shelley would lose touch but always reconnect. And Shelley was always the same. One day Kilbourn had just got out of her van at Dundas and Waterloo streets. “I was in the middle of Dundas Street, crossing to the other side and I heard a scream and turned around. Shelley is running between the cars and jumping into my arms. I ended up carrying her to the other side. I hadn’t seen her in two or three years.” A few years before the disappearance, they reconnected again. Kilbourn was working at the YMCA in downtown London and Desrochers came in looking for a membership. “I would always try to hang out with her as much as I could before she disappeared again,” Kilbourn says. After seeing the missing persons billboard, Kilbourn eventually re-connected with Laura Desrochers and joined Please Bring Me Home as an investigator – the point person on the Shelley Desrochers case. The cross-country organization has teams of volunteers that try to solve missing persons cases. Their searches, like the police before them, have turned up hints and clues about Desrochers’ disappearance, but no resolution. The Desrochers case has also been highlighted in podcasts and recently an episode of the series Never Seen Again, streaming on Paramount+ Kilbourn has been working on several theories and has a book filled with photographs, maps, notes and other leads. Finding Desrochers or determining what happened to her now seems an insurmountable task. Kilbourn seems surprised when asked why she’s still looking. “She’s Shelley Bean. She’s my kid, one of my kids. She’s always had a place in my heart.” transmission or republication strictly prohibited This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. Read more about cookies here. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy You can manage saved articles in your account Rubbing shoulders with the crème de la crème of Hollywood and encouraging the best of rising local talent is all in a day’s work for Shelley Lowry It’s a really good plan B and it’s worked out so much better than plan A ever could have and I’m very grateful for that,” says Shelley about her talent management company Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening Please check your inbox to verify your details You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience and security Domino have today announced details of the re-release of Pete Shelley’s first two solo albums Homosapien and XL-1 - the first time both albums have been reissued individually as standalone releases since they were included as part of a box set by Genetic Records in 2018 Released on Friday 6th June 2025, both albums come housed in gatefold sleeves featuring the original  fully restored artwork, include an extra disc featuring B-sides, dubs & extended mixes and contain inserts featuring new photos & imagery and extensive sleeve notes from the acclaimed writer Clinton Heylin. Both will also be available on CD for the first time since 2006 Recorded in close collaboration with renowned producer Martin Rushent both albums saw Shelley embrace a wider musical palate post-Buzzcocks and work with electronic instrumentation and synthesisers – Homosapien in particular is seen as a massively influential and pioneering record and widely regarded as a musical signpost for the work Rushent did with The Human League on Dare a few months later Banned for homophobic reasons at the time by BBC radio "Homosapien" would become a gay club anthem and the queer element a hugely important part of both Pete’s personal and musical life Watch the original video for "Homosapien" below: drawing on ideas from before his time with Buzzcocks when Pete first began experimenting with home recording were influenced by glam and experimental sounds laying the groundwork for his later solo work Pete’s desire to explore electronic music and more experimental styles grew especially after seeing bands like Joy Division and Gang of Four garner critical praise and Pete's desire to explore new musical directions was clashing with the band's more traditional punk style He had already started working on solo material including early recordings with Martin Rushent who had encouraged Pete to pursue a solo project with Pete playing most instruments himself and using synthesizers to craft a sound far removed from Buzzcocks' punk rootsReleased through Rushent's Genetic Records Homosapien showcased Pete's shift toward electronic pop blending elements of glam and avant-garde music though some of Pete’s personal themes sparked controversy Despite initial resistance from his former label EMI where tracks like “In Love with Somebody Else” were included in place of some earlier demos The album marked a significant departure from Pete’s past but it also opened the door to his next creative phase Pete Shelley discussed his shift away from the past largely overshadowed by The Human League's Dare Shelley explained his lack of interest in proving anything to the public focusing instead on creating songs that resonate deeply without adhering to commercial expectations Critics compared Homosapien to the works of The Human League and Heaven 17 but Shelley’s focus was on creating timeless Shelley wasn’t interested in the "pop rat race" and felt punk had lost its edge and saw himself as a lone figure pushing the boundaries of the genre blending influences from artists like Dexys and Roxy Music including multi-media and computer-generated experiences Shelley moved further into experimental sounds utilizing new technology and creating songs in the studio rather than demoing them He even incorporated video and graphic elements into the album embracing both dub mixes and cutting-edge music production XL-1 was another bold step into the future driven by Shelley's ambition to keep pushing musical boundaries and experimenting with new sounds and ideas New collection of author’s diary entries provides tragic insight Frankenstein’s monster, as horror fans know, did not really spark into life with a bolt of lightning, but was born inside the mind of Mary Shelley during a dreary holiday on a ­mountainside above Geneva The inspiration came as volcanic ash clouds unexpectedly blocked out the sun that summer of 1816 and she and her friends “bad boy” poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley But a new collection of the young author’s personal diary entries although the stay in the Alps set the grim mood of her novel her imagination was ignited by something ­personal and much closer to home Shelley’s journals, letters and short stories from this period, published together for the first time in Mary Shelley in Bath, reveal that the dark shadow that hangs over the plot of Frankenstein is the mysterious suicide of her elder half-sister, Fanny Imlay. The poet and Shelley scholar Fiona Sampson who wrote the introduction to the new collection from Manderley Press is convinced a secret shame lurks behind this sad death and that it coloured the novel She also believes she has spotted the fake alibi that gives the game away had returned from Switzerland later that year and taken lodgings in Bath with her notorious married lover they were actually at the heart of what we know as Jane Austen’s Bath a place of genteel gossip,” Sampson told the Observer ‘An extraordinary life’: Mary Shelley Photograph: GL Archive/AlamyTragedy fell on them quickly “The coach stop was next to the Abbey Churchyard, where Shelley and her sister were living. But on the day that she arrived in Bath Mary’s journal sets up an alibi,” said Sampson. “When you decode her diary, which was clearly written for public consumption because of her own literary ambition and her mother’s fame, she says specifically that she and Percy took a walk to South Parade for a drawing lesson, the kind of thing she never usually mentions.” Rebeka Russell, publisher of the new collection, wanted to focus on Shelley’s days in Bath. “Mary’s literary reputation has been subsumed by the monster, by her husband, who was a bit of a cad really, not to mention her mother’s great name, of course. But she was bearing so much responsibility, as a sister, as a partner, as a mother and as the reviled ‘other woman’. This collection shows her as someone with her own extraordinary life.” Read moreThe twin tragedies alter the understanding of the themes of Frankenstein starring Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi as the monster and directed by Guillermo del Toro It is often read as a warning about the perils of science England’s most prominent early ­promoter of women’s rights Shelley was concerned with the impact of motherhood and the responsibility of birth “When Fanny was born Wollstonecraft wrote an amazing piece about how frightened she felt when she looked at her baby She feared that one of these aims would have to be sacrificed.” produced by Pilot Theatre and Hull Truck Theatre and with songs by musician Billy Nomates (aka Tor Maries) will tell the story of Wollstonecraft’s adventurous career and was prompted by the thought that she had never known her most famous child “I wanted to do a show about how we raise girls and young women because a lot of what Wollstonecraft wrote still feels so modern,” said Lennon This article was amended on 20 January 2025 to include the title of the forthcoming collection of papers The main picture caption was amended on 7 February 2025 to remove a reference to Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein: it was his stunt double Eddie Parker Mary Shelley in Bath (Manderley Press Ltd, £19.99). To support the Guardian and Observer, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com This is the archive of The Observer up until 21/04/2025 The Observer is now owned and operated by Tortoise Media Heart of Midlothian is pleased to welcome Shelley Kerr to the club in the new role of Technical Development Manager The former Scotland Women’s National Team Head Coach has been appointed to support the development of players and coaches across the male academy set-up at Oriam Shelley’s primary role will be to make the development process from academy to first team more strategic and efficient implementing a technical and tactical framework to help players and coaches aspire to fulfil their potential at Heart of Midlothian she will also assist new B Team Head Coach Angus Beith Shelley joins after a period as Technical Lead and Head of Women’s Development Teams with the English FA where she played a key role in the implementation and development of the How We Play strategy for the women’s game She led the Scotland Women’s National Team to the 2019 FIFA World Cup during her three years in charge and earned 59 caps as a player for the national team Shelley was also Head Coach of Arsenal Women’s team and became the first female manager in the senior men’s game when she took charge of Stirling University in the Scottish Lowland Football League Shelley now brings her knowledge and expertise to the Jambos as new Sporting Director Graeme Jones bolsters the football department “Shelley’s extensive experience and skill set is ideally suited to this new role at the club and I look forward to working with her to harness the development pathway leading to the first team,” he said “She will support Angus from a coaching perspective with the B Team but her remit will be far more wide-ranging “She will have an overview of the talent pipeline – of coaches as well as players – but fundamentally the job of Technical Development Manager is to make the route towards the first team clearer for those on the journey “As well as her coaching experience and UEFA Pro Licence what made Shelley stand out was the work undertaken with the English FA in taking the principle of a high-performance environment and implementing key physical tactical and technical strategies and objectives.” the football department and the board at Heart of Midlothian for the opportunity to work in such an important role at the club “I am fortunate to have undertaken a variety of leadership roles across men’s and women’s football since I retired as a player and I am excited to bring the accumulation of that knowledge and experience to Heart of Midlothian” © Copyright 2016 - 2025 Heart of Midlothian Feb 26, 2025 | Business News, GMLEP News Oldham Council has named Shelley Kipling as its chief executive designate to take the borough forward in the coming years who is currently acting Chief Executive at Oldham Council was the unanimous choice of a cross-party appointments committee for the position following a tough process attracting a range of high-calibre candidates Her name will now go forward for ratification by full council next Thursday said: “I’m thrilled that we’ve appointed Shelley to this role following a highly competitive selection process which attracted an impressive field of candidates “Shelley’s passion for Oldham shone through this process and she demonstrated clearly the care she has for our residents and communities “The coming years will be so important for Oldham as we drive forward our plans to regenerate and transform our borough continue to improve our vital public services and work with our partners and residents to create a better Oldham “I can think of no one better than Shelley to work alongside me as we lead this crucial work to set a clear vision for the future of Oldham and restore pride and hope to our wonderful borough.” Shelley Kipling said: “I am so proud to work for Oldham – a place I love – and being given this opportunity to serve Oldhamers at such an important time for our borough is an honour It’s also a privilege to do this alongside a fantastic workforce who work every single day to make the lives of Oldham people better “It is an exciting moment to be part of Oldham’s story From regeneration and transformation across the borough a budget which is stabilised and a renewed sense of purpose for a place that has made it clear we will no longer be left behind “There is a real strength present in Oldham which if we work together collectively to maximise and amplify the current acting Chief Executive at the Council started her career in local government in 2003 before joining Oldham Council in 2009 and becoming Head of Communications In 2015 she left Oldham to join Manchester City Council to lead their communications function Shelley returned to Oldham Council in 2019 as Assistant Director for Strategy Shelley was instrumental during our Borough’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and to our plans for recovery afterwards Shelley was promoted to Assistant Chief Executive in 2021 where she took on additional responsibilities including human resources and organisational development and in January 2024 Shelley took on responsibility for customer services and IT Shelley has been instrumental in our work to build greater financial sustainability and to transform council services McGinnis has been named the winner of the 2024 Keats-Shelley Prize in the Essay Division for her paper titled “Violence at a Glacial Pace: Reading Shelley’s ‘Mont Blanc’ in an Age of Melting Ice Caps.”  is conferred by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association Winning entries are published in the The Keats-Shelley Review a leading international journal for the study of British Romanticism McGinnis will receive her doctoral degree this month she will serve as teaching assistant professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone Find more information. I’ve recently finished reading Anxious People by Fredrik Backman and it really got me thinking – mainly about how I could apply several of the key messages to my work life The book is about a bank robbery that goes wrong and turns into a hostage situation – although it is actually about so much more it challenged my preconceptions of characters in the book I had to go back and read several passages to see how I’d managed to interpret things in a certain way I don’t want to write too much more here just in case you decide to read it… This really started to make me revaluate how I interact with clients particularly when I meet them for first time I think this book beautifully illustrates how we can bring our own judgement and preconceptions into a client meeting We need to ask more questions; we need to dig further into why people think or feel a certain way about money Anna-Lena – one of the main characters – initially appeared to be a bit downtrodden by her husband The reality was that she had been the main ‘breadwinner’ while he had stayed at home to look after the children was using house renovation as to a way to prove his worth in the relationship and Anna-Lena hired someone to improve Roger’s chances of success Her intention was to make him feel good about himself which it did – until he found out about the helping hand that she had Another character is Zara – an analyst at a bank Her thoughts on wealth and the banking system give a different perspective yet again She says that ‘the most expensive thing you can buy in the most densely populated places on the planet is space’ which I found to be an interesting concept It is clear from Zara that she needs to be careful that ‘space’ does not become ‘loneliness’ She points out that people who spend a lot of time curating a portrait online depicting happy times are probably not that happy Zara also says that the financial system abuses people’s trust and dreams and also points out that a lot of people finance their lives An illusion of wealth can be created with a huge amount of underlying debt what people portray is not necessarily reflective of their full circumstances This lifestyle can be maintainable while working but is often harder in retirement – particularly if you have been spending your income on financing debt rather than saving for the future It also illustrates how important it is to build trust with our clients and understand their dreams It’s important to understand how much finance a client has and how susceptible they would be in times of interest rate increases There are a lot of business book recommendations thrown around – on sales But can reading fiction also help with your financial planning career it can give you another topic to discuss with your clients Shelley McCarthy is managing director of Informed Choice Most retail borrowers have the real issue of not being in debt enough… the old adage… ‘Owe the bank a million you have a problem owe same 50million they have a problem’! bit like worrying never actually solved anything… Ultimately one can be bankrupt for 50k as much as 50M… It will be the same 12-18 months off as a bar tender in a sunny place – sadly the 25 million+ debtors in UK cannot all be trusted to share a cocktail shaker the words “In or out Sir/Madam”! You must be logged in to post a comment On Tuesday 4 March, clergy and licensed lay ministers from across Chelmsford Diocese gathered at Chelmsford Cathedral for the 2025 Bishop’s Study Day. The theme of this year’s gathering was ‘Faithful, creative, courageous and open to the unexpected and surprising’, one of our shared diocesan values, set out in Travelling Well Together This year’s Study Day was led by The Very Rev’d Dr Shelley-Ann Tenia Dean and Rector of Holy Trinity Cathedral in our link Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago You can watch Dean Shelley-Ann’s address to the Study Day and an introduction from Bishop Guli in the video below As well as leading the 2025 Bishop’s Study Day Dean Shelley-Ann spent time with people from churches and schools across Essex and East London during her visit - Meetings with school children and staff at St Mary’s Prittlewell Church of England Primary School and St Edward’s Church of England Secondary School in Romford - A meeting with school leaders and aspiring school leaders from the Leaders Like Us Programme and from across the Diocese of Chelmsford - A prayer walk with people from churches in the Barking Episcopal Area - A meeting with members of the Chelmsford Diocesan Youth Synod at St Barnabas Walthamstow - Joining the Deans of Chelmsford and Bristol at Chelmsford Cathedral for a public discussion about Contested Heritage - A retreat at the Diocesan House of Retreat Pleshey with Global Majority Heritage church leaders from Chelmsford Diocese Photos from some of Dean Shelley-Ann’s visits can be viewed below Dean Shelley-Ann meets with school leaders and aspiring school leaders from the Leaders Like Us Programme and across Chelmsford Diocese at St John's Stratford Pupils from St Edward’s Church of England Secondary School in Romford greet Dean Shelley-Ann with Trinidad and Tobago flags Dean Shelley-Ann and Head Teacher Mrs Lewis speak with pupils from St Mary’s Prittlewell Church of England Primary School Dean Shelley-Ann with pupils from St Mary’s Prittlewell Church of England Primary School Around 300 clergy and licensed lay ministers from Chelmsford Diocese heard Dean Shelley-Ann’s address at this year’s Bishop’s Study Day Dean Shelley-Ann joins the Dean of Chelmsford the Very Rev’d Dr Jessica Martin and the Dean of Bristol the Very Rev’d Dr Mandy Ford for a discussion about contested heritage Dean Shelley-Ann joined Global Majority Heritage church leaders from Chelmsford Diocese on a retreat at Pleshey Dean Shelley-Ann met with members of the Diocesan Youth Synod at St Barnabas Walthamstow The National Giving Team and our diocesan Parish Giving Advisors led pilot Cornerstone workshops with churches to support them in understanding and improving their giving practice and culture of generosity SALT was a day of encouragement and encounter for women across Chelmsford Diocese that took place at Holy Trinity South Woodford Bishop Guli is walking St Peter’s Way for her Lenten Pilgrimage You are viewing your 1 free article this month Reading for pleasure took centre stage at yesterday’s panel between two of the industry’s transatlantic leaders: Waterstones and Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt and David Shelley CEO of Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group The panellists spoke about the ways the industry can help tackle the decline in ​reading for pleasure among children but Daunt also noted that “the kids are in the stores everywhere were browsing and buying books at physical bookstores Daunt added that he was “not remotely gloomy” about the state of the market with Waterstones and Barnes & Noble seeing a “very he acknowledged challenges for non-fiction arguing that politics and world affairs were “diverting the non-fiction reader” He said that booksellers “took out a lot of the fun when Covid happened” as events for children were dialled back and bookshops became more “depersonalised” spaces But he added that while there was cause for optimism as stores had since reopened and many in-person event programmes were in place again he said there was also room for improvement when it came to making shops more “engaging” and “vibrant” spaces for children which he said was especially important since children today were “very clued up” and interested in discovering new books themselves rather than having their parents choose titles for them Meanwhile, Shelley spoke about Hachette’s Raising Readers campaign which seeks to highlight “the value of fostering a lifelong habit of reading for pleasure and [provide] tips on how to do so” He said the value of reading for “just a few minutes” a day was “not publicised widely enough” The Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group CEO said BookTok was continuing to boost YA sales in the UK and the US and that the publisher had seen “extremely good sales” in non-fiction with “quasi-academic” books Self-help and self-development titles continue to be popular as people seek new ways to “cope with modern life” Daunt announced that Waterstones was introducing a fifth Book of the Month category spotlighting books in this non-fiction space And as Barnes & Noble continues to expand rapidly in the US and Waterstones sees new shops open across the country Daunt said fostering a sense of “autonomy” in the shops remained a key focus Another priority for the retailer in the year ahead is to boost titles by lesser-known authors Daunt said: “To be able to take good books by unknown authors and elevate them and make them into major bestsellers is something that a chain can do and I think we’re slowly becoming better at it.” Daunt said that the physical book trade was “lagging massively” when it came to self-published titles that had become overnight bestsellers “When that self-published book is being read on the sidelines and it goes from six copies a week to 120,000 because they’re the only people who can press a printing button Addressing the issue of artificial intelligence (AI) Daunt said “most booksellers will be innately prejudiced against anything that has AI attached to it” He suggested that booksellers were resistant to AI-generated book covers and that the way publishers use AI “may or may not impact our judgement as to what we take from them” romantic poet Lord Byron hosted a shindig of like-minded writers and dramatists at his Swiss Villa Diodati mansion in Geneva and entertaining themselves that evening reading aloud various German ghost stories collated in the Fantasmagoriana French translation Struck with the capital idea of writing their own horror tales Byron proposed each of his guests conceive of a spooky yarn over the following days an evening’s discussion on the nature of life sowed the seed in the 18-year-old Mary Shelley née Godwin of the gothic novel that birthed modern science fiction and forever defined her “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out half-vital motion,” Shelley wrote in the forward to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein describing the dream which further inspired her Galvanist nightmare “Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.” albeit with its numerous creative departures from the source material Born in 1797 to anarchist political philosopher William Godwin and proto-feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft who died 11 days after giving birth due to septicemia complications Shelly grew up in an intellectually nurturing environment of private tutors and keenly encouraged unorthodoxy to the patriarchial mores of the era A progressive challenge to the early 19th Century’s rigid social codes was a rebellious streak Shelley absorbed from her late mother having read repeatedly 1792’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman essay advocating reform of female education and the right for women to earn a living Shelley was frequently taken to her mother’s grave in London’s St Pancras Old Church later moved to the family grave plot in Bournemouth’s St Peter’s Church Shelley would visit the maternal graveside throughout her life learning to spell their shared name by tracing the headstone’s engravings bringing her many books for quiet reading time or merely to escape her father’s new wife Mary Jane Clairmont whom she had a troubled relationship with It was also here that the young Shelley shared numerous romantic liaisons with her lover and groom-to-be founding the enduring and salacious legend of the first consummation of their relationship it’s a piece of apocryphal lore we’ll never know for certain but there’s credible historical consensus that they may well have had sex for the first time by Wollstonecraft’s grave While meeting briefly when the up-and-coming literary wildcard Percy had joined the Godwin’s for dinner he was already married and father to a child had behaved flirtatiously with both Shelley and their stepsister Claire ‘Jane’ Clairmont It was the young Shelley who ultimately won his heart Often making their excuses to take clandestine walks through the St Pancras churchyard resulted in both their declaration of love for each other and Percy announcing he could no longer hide his “ardent passion” and triggering a “sublime and rapturous moment” as detailed in a letter to friend and barrister Thomas Jefferson Hogg he described the seductive moment as his “new birthday” in his own journals After eloping shortly after and following the devastating disintegration of her relationship with her father a result Shelley and Percy fled the stigma of their illegitimate coupling and travelled around Europe Shelley had tragically lost three children and suffered a miscarriage and Percy had drowned in the Don Juan sailing disaster Haunted by the loss of her mother and stung by her father’s rejecting cold shoulder the weary traversal across Europe as nomadic outcasts no doubt inspired Frankenstein‘s isolated creature and its poignant light Now covered in moss and its etchings barely legible Wollstonecraft’s weathered headstone is a popular tourist spot for fans of Frankenstein and admirers of Shelley’s turbulent and free-spirited life drawn to the churchyard locale where grief and adventure all clashed together at once Shelley Kerr recently sat down with Hearts TV for her first interview since joining the club as Technical Development Manager in November The former Scotland National team head coach has a wide-ranging role at Oriam and as well as being involved in the development of players and coaches within the male academy in general Shelley is also Angus Beith’s assistant within the B Team setup Kerr admits that her first two months at the club have been hectic “I think anybody would tell you when you go into club football it's 100 miles an hour much different from an international space Spending a bit of time firstly getting to know the staff and especially that phase of coming out of the academy but it's also looking at the players coming out of the academy and that transitional phase into the under-18s in the academy it's about trying to make sure that the players get the right wraparound support so that we give them every opportunity to excel at the club.” The B Team enjoyed a successful campaign last season finishing second in the Lowland League and while some players within that team have now taken a step up by moving on loan to clubs within the SPFL Adam Forrester and James Wilson have enjoyed regularly game time within the first team set up it's the most exciting part in coaching and managing if you're part of that strategic approach to the developmental issues at a club I think the club are doing fantastically well It's quite unique to have two players that are starting almost every game “That's a credit to the staff and the academy that have helped develop them but I think that should be the overarching objective of the academy and then coming out of the academy to try and get more players that are senior ready that can play in the first team and also in Europe.” I've really enjoyed so far working with him which sometimes isn't always the case in football so player and coach development is really important."  You can watch Shelley’s interview in full on Hearts TV or on the Hearts YouTube channel. Activating this feature will stop all interaction and design based motions and animations on the site for the duration of your visit Activating this feature will create a focus area on the screen that will follow your mouse to eliminate distractions Leading our global IT efforts at Jacobs is Chief Information Officer (CIO) Shelley Kalms who has more than 28 years of experience working across industries like chemicals Shelley joined us in January 2024 and within a year of coming on board she’s showcased her knowledge and talent in multiple areas – significantly contributing to our IT organization’s growth and our company’s transformational journey.  Shelley talks to us about her first year at Jacobs the challenges and learnings that have shaped her journey here so far and her vision for the future.  You’ve been part of #OurJacobs team for a year now – what have you learned in the past year that you’ll take with you into 2025 This last year was eventful in terms of the wealth of learnings it brought There are many elements from the past year which have helped shape my strategy for 2025 – my top two being the resilience of the team and the fact that where there is a will What’s your vision for the future of Jacobs and what excites you most?  our vision for IT is to create a robust and reliable IT ecosystem where every asset is operated We strive to be a data-driven organization where data and information are readily accessible at our fingertips with clear and known lineage ensuring transparency and trust Our commitment is to empower our people through cutting-edge technology and ensuring the highest standards of cybersecurity to protect our valuable assets and information we aim to achieve excellence and drive innovation What are you currently focused on accomplishing?  My current focus is getting the foundations right including the right investment profile that enables IT to be an asset to the business – be it productivity gains or simply enabling people to do their job.  Our overarching goal is to help position IT as a strategic partner for enabling and accelerating business growth and agility – consistently supporting our people and innovating to deliver secure digital solutions to help drive our company strategy forward I look at it as an opportunity and ensure we fully understand the problems we’re trying to solve for I like to identify the relevant stakeholders and together collaborate to deliver the solution  This sometimes takes multiple iterations which demonstrates adaptability taking on feedback and willingness to learn How are you leading continuous improvement efforts?  My focus lies in setting up the foundations from which you build upon; this includes investments in strategic platforms data and AI to provide value-added benefits for the organization You’ve worked across industries – what led you to choose a career in information technology?  I’ve loved tackling challenges and learning from every situation that came my way The driving factor that made me choose a career in information technology is the difference you can make when you combine people processes and technology – creating changes that are impactful and step-changing What career advice would you like to give young professionals seeking opportunities in this field?  which will pave a path for success in the future I also think it’s important to stay curious continuously learn and embrace new challenges Success is a holistic measure of well-being and satisfaction achieved through a balance of accomplishments It involves reaching one's goals and objectives in both personal and professional aspects of life which includes living in alignment with your personal core values and principles ensuring that actions and decisions reflect what’s truly important to an individual success to me is achieving our business goals while fostering a positive and inclusive work environment and making a meaningful impact on our employees What’s your favorite part about being a part of #OurJacobs the amazing things Jacobs does – and it’s through our people that these amazing projects come to life I love being able to work with talented individuals and drive meaningful change which makes it a truly rewarding experience Shelley Kalms is an experienced leader focused on driving innovation delivering strategic solutions and believes that the IT organization is critical to enabling our business Her professional journey spans over 28 years working across industries and prior to Jacobs she served various digital leadership roles at Woodside Energy including Chief Digital Officer and General Manager of Data Science She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering as well as a master’s degree in business administration from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Australia This website uses cookies to improve your experience and analyse information on site performance and usage. Learn more about how we use cookies Shelley and Lyn have helped over 100 children feel safe and cared for in their many years as foster carers Have you ever thought about what it’s like to welcome someone new into your family That’s exactly what Shelley and Lyn have been doing for years—they’ve been foster carers for a very long time helping over 100 children feel safe and cared for in their home “We started fostering because we wanted to help children feel loved and safe Shelley and Lyn have taken care of children of all ages They’ve even helped teenagers learn how to live on their own when they grow up One of their favourite memories is taking a child to the seaside for the first time “Seeing their excitement when they felt the sand and saw the sea was magical,” says Lyn like giving a child a Christmas present or a party dress Shelley and Lyn believe fostering is all about helping children feel like they belong They’ve stayed close to many of the children they fostered and some even see them as grandparents now “It’s so special to know we’ve made a difference,” Shelley says Anyone considering fostering is encouraged by Shelley and Lyn to gather as much information as possible and ask plenty of questions While fostering can be incredibly rewarding it comes with challenges such as increased training They stress the importance of family support explaining that having loved ones to lean on during tough times is essential so having a trusted support system makes all the difference Shelley and Lyn also emphasise that fostering is open to everyone and traditional families can all provide the loving and safe environment children need and the ability to adapt to unexpected situations they say fostering is one of the most worthwhile things you can do as it offers a chance to make a life-changing impact on a child’s future representing the Lead Council’s Cabinet Member for Foster East Midlands said: “Shelley and Lyn have dedicated their lives to fostering Their commitment shows how fostering can truly transform lives from helping babies and teenagers feel secure to guiding young adults toward independence Their story proves that a big heart and a welcoming home can change a child’s future forever The council is deeply grateful for their unwavering dedication and the incredible support they’ve given to so many children.” If you’ve been inspired by Shelley and Lyn’s story and want to make a difference in a child’s life, why not take the first step towards fostering? 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Help support our writers and keep our site ad-free. “‘We will each write a ghost story,’ said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded to There were four of us.” – Mary Shelley it’s so chilling that I think we should probably call off the rest of the storytelling contest right now Because I feel like Mary Shelley may have pre-written her idea All I’m saying is it feels pretty fleshed out already I’m not trying to accuse anyone of anything I thought we were telling stories we came up with in the last twenty-four hours and not workshopping full novel ideas so it doesn’t fit in the rules laid out by Lord Byron And it makes you think about playing God and stuff even though none of us would be able to play God that way but maybe try a more approachable idea for hubris I don’t even know that many people who have electricity Half the people who read this will just want the monster to wave his hands at fire or something Does anyone else remember the four of us talking about that doctor who had theorized electricity could bring back a recently dead body I just remembered we had a whole discussion about that very recently “Isn’t this like that news story about that guy?” So But it’s not as much fun to do this story competition when there’s a ringer in the room Not to mention that her parents were kind of famous you have that nepo-baby advantage right there Not all of us grew up under the Wollstonecraft and Godwin banners Some of us had to learn our letters ourselves and work full-time jobs that don’t allow us to come up with entirely new genres of fiction I don’t consider myself a melancholic poet who has sex on their parents’ grave or whatever I just think—I don’t know—why does the monster talk so much Something actually scary and not “society is bad” scary Everyone seems to just want me to move on and tell my story I really do wish I had gone first to set a better tone than Mary has here and not because her story was long and clearly outlined beforehand Then why aren’t any of you volunteering to go next It’s like when there’s a group job interview and you find out someone can bring a fiddle I admit it’s a fun idea if you’re into this type of thing I’m not saying she doesn’t deserve all the kudos we’re all giving her—me included when I realized that maybe Frankenstein was the real monster after all do we think it’s a mistake that Mary didn’t name the monster but people might want the monster to have a name Brutally Honest Instructions for Visiting a Pumpkin Patch Will Pay Forty-Seven Dollars to Anyone Who Can Figure Out What’s Wrong with Me The director of Annie Hall, and Duvall’s co-stars in Time Bandits and Roxanne, reflect on working with the actor, who died yesterday aged 75 ‘She gave me reports on last night’s date with Paul Simon’Woody Allen We cast Shelley Duvall as the Rolling Stone reporter in Annie Hall because it’s a flaky character and we wanted someone with a little strangeness not someone who’d have been better playing a quiet schoolteacher or an accountant wonderful-looking in her way and a very good actress with unique screen charisma We’d just start the scene and she would come to it with that natural quirky personality She said the “Kafkaesque” line just like an average person would I realised she was exactly what we wanted as soon as we began shooting you realise how good the actor or actress is it was clear she was giving that character – only words on the page – a real life or had any conversations with her other than when she’d tell me what a nice time she had with Paul Simon the night before so every day just before we shot she would say: “Oh last night Paul and I stayed up till dawn talking He’s so great and he’s so charming and he’s so wonderful.” I didn’t set them up: I just cast them and then got the report every morning I guess if a film director could have performed a marriage I’d have married them ‘Full of enchantment’ … Daryl Hannah and Shelley Duvall in Roxanne Photograph: Columbia/AllstarWhile making Roxanne I had the great fortune to spend quite a bit of quality time with Shelley Duvall I had long been an admirer of hers since all of her wonderfully quirky Altman films Being around Shelley was like being around a magical being – full of creative ideas and enchantment I was very sad to hear the news of Shelley Duvall’s death when we played the star-crossed lovers in Time Bandits We spent some time tied to a tree in Epping Forest being sprayed to within an inch of our lives by the local fire brigade ‘An innate warmth’ … Michael Palin and Shelley Duvall in Time Bandits Photograph: Handmade Films/AllstarShe was amazingly patient Her soft voice belied strong beliefs and opinions She had a great sense of humour and an innate warmth that made her the sort of person you wanted to stay in touch with So sorry that we’ll not be able to laugh and share memories again A welcoming workplace is core to our vision - 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World™ Abu Dhabi Discover how the power of infrastructure projects can deliver positive change Our blog discusses some of the biggest challenges of today and tomorrow Healthcare planning and emergency response: the case of choosing modular solutions Taking infrastructure discusses the industry's hot topics key projects and groundbreaking innovation Environment, Landscape architecture, Landscape Design, Sustainability Shelley Martin has worked on a wide range of projects from small-scale residential to large-scale parklands Shelley brings extensive experience as a project manager and landscape architect in both the public and private sectors budget management and construction administration Design and delivery of residential communities and review across a range of projects is Shelley’s current focus What inspired you to join the industry and what has kept you passionate over the past 15 years I originally intended to study interior design after starting a degree in Landscape Architecture I felt more inspired by the idea of creating outdoor spaces that connect people to the natural environment I have always loved being immersed in nature and it was thrilling to discover a career that allowed me to shape the built environment while integrating the natural one What has been your favorite project that you’ve worked on and why a 400-lot coastal village community in Queensland offering a diverse array of landscape design opportunities from multimillion-dollar parklands and a bespoke playscape to dune-crossing beach access What excites me most about this project is that we realised all the key design drivers developed with the client during the initial concept planning Our vision was to create a community that could become the Sunshine Coasts ‘best kept secret’ inspired by and embedded in nature with water at the heart and an energetic and vibrant coastal village vibe we navigated various challenges to realising our vision One notable example occurred when planning for the development’s stormwater We worked with the client and engineers to realise the value of literally creating ‘water at the heart’ by transforming a stormwater detention basin into an opportunity to extend an existing manmade lake into the heart of the openspace precinct The result is a scenic central lake for end of line stormwater management and a jewel in the openspace network with direct water access for the community.  The result is a vibrant village hub with a relaxed coastal aesthetic seamlessly embedded in nature with water at its heart How do you approach a new project from a design perspective especially when working with a diverse set of clients and project types I take cues from the natural environment — whether it’s existing or pre-clearing vegetation communities proximity to natural or cultural features like water bodies I am passionate about referencing the natural character of a place — its context or history — through structural forms Understanding how a place connects to its context is central to my design process we concentrated on coastal cues utilising endemic and local dunal plant species curvilinear forms reminiscent of patterns left in the sand by the tide and a hardscape palette dominated by soft neutral tones of shells and driftwood These elements drew the beach aesthetic into the development situating it seamlessly in its context What trends or advancements in landscape architecture design are you most excited about How do you see these influencing future projects I’m fascinated by initiatives in countries like Denmark such as ‘Wild on Purpose,’ which focus on fostering biodiversity and promoting pollination and habitat creation within urban environments we’re beginning to see similar strategies emerging such as ‘Biodiversity in Place,’ though activation is slower here I would love to see a shift away from manicured monocultures especially in non-traditional applications like street verges These areas make up more than a third of all greenspaces in our cities natural landscapes is essential to improving the resilience of our built environments implementation comes with its own set of challenges — from local authority preferences to the commercial availability of plant species as demand for sustainable solutions increases There are many principles that can be applied at any scale to advance this goal It’s not so much about recreating nature implementing highly diverse understory planting with endemic species adopting management practices to benefit wildlife such as reducing pesticides and mowing and realising the value of small spaces such as verge gardens and vertical gardens in creating a network across urban environments that connects to wider ecological systems What advice would you give to the next generation of landscape architects looking to build a strong reputation and create lasting impacts through their work Follow ideas and principles that inspire you surround yourself with creative people you can learn from and share your ideas with Layer what you learn into your work and always remain open to creative debate Author: Shelley Martin Blaine’s working-class Queensland family represented everything Michael Shelley hated about Australia The only problem was his children were Blaines When journalist and author Lech Blaine was 11 years old, his mother Lenore would often joke she could write a book about the trouble that lay just beyond their Toowoomba driveway. “I’d been so terrified of them, even when I was still a teenager,” Blaine explains, now 32. “Even after I’d moved away from Toowoomba I used to dread their potential arrival.” Read moreIt could seem there was no escaping the Shelleys. In his latest book Australian Gospel: A Family Saga Blaine tries to make sense of the deep ties binding the families together Joshua and Hannah Shelley – the biological children of Mary and Michael removed as babies and toddlers from their care by social service workers concerned about their treatment and placed into the care of foster parents – Tom and Lenore Blaine Mary and Michael would never stop trying to recover their children; by law or by threat of force The Shelleys were a pair of self-styled Christian prophets sharing their custom blend of Old Testament brimstone and back-to-the-earth hippie culture with anyone who listened For years the pair had hitchhiked their way around Australia and New Zealand leaving a scorched-earth paper trail across courtrooms They quickly burnt through the goodwill of anyone who helped them and waged scornful campaigns of harassment against those who didn’t That placed them on a collision course with the Blaine family; two working-class parents and their chaotic brood of rugby-loving foster kids with matching back yard haircuts being raised against the backdrop of small-town country pubs they represented everything that was morally and spiritually corrupt about modern Australia Lenore and Tom Blaine foster family and location were a closely guarded secret They spent decades harassing social workers sending death threats to the premier of Queensland Despite the restraining orders and stalking charges the Shelleys would haunt the Blaines for years with a near-constant stream of threatening and pleading letters sent from wherever Mary and Michael were in the world Blaine began piecing together the story after moving back home at 21. His mother had been diagnosed with a rare and terminal neurodegenerative illness and as he tried to make sense of her future he also found himself grappling with the family’s past “She’d kept this meticulous record of everything and passed all that stuff on to me,” he explains “So I spent that summer organising her nursing home placement and going through basically everything that she had.” a decade of emails that the Shelleys had inundated her inbox with “I got so addicted to information at times,” he says thanks to a lot of the information that Mum had kept I realised how much more interesting the Shelleys were than these really quite terrifying monstrous people in my imagination as a child.” With his mother too sick to write the story His mother’s archive told one side of the Shelley story But as he began to reach out to social workers and other witnesses Blaine knew there was another source he needed to hear from: Michael Shelley “I lived in absolute fear of him,” Blaine says “I actually still can’t believe that I really did it.” Michael responded to Blaine’s first tentative email and was soon sharing his own personal archive of over 400,000 words of material including unpublished autobiographical accounts Even from someone Blaine knew was an “incredibly unreliable narrator” Blaine’s siblings were burnt-out from years of Michael’s fiery attempts to reconnect – often by accusing his children of being a “TRAITOR” “brainwashed” by authorities and the Blaines But Lech Blaine’s correspondence struck a different tone to the harassing messages his family had received for years Free weekly newsletterEach week our editors select five of the most interesting entertaining and thoughtful reads published by Guardian Australia and our international colleagues Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Saturday morning I think that he was more angry at my foster siblings because they weren’t paying him any attention or trying to get in contact “This is a guy who had spent decades desperately trying to get people to read his writing and to ask him what he thinks about things I was really one of the only people who’ve ever actually showed much interest in what he had to say.” Michael Shelley the biological father of the foster siblings of Lech BlaineShelley’s own voluminous writings filled in the gaps in the public record his mother’s records and Blaine’s own childhood memories “I got a much better sense of who they were before they’d suffered nervous breakdowns and I got a genuine sense that they weren’t evil privileged Sydney socialites whose relationships and exploits had garnered magazine front pages and newspaper column inches The Shelleys found each other in the wake of breakups and breakdowns beginning a decades-long co-dependency that saw them drop out of mainstream Australia for good Blaine was also committed to recognising how his own parents’ complexities shaped their family experience He could see how his “larrikin” Dad’s sense of humour was a “coping mechanism for some of the things that he suffered when he was quite young” He understood how his mother was an excellent foster carer because she was nonjudgemental “she didn’t radiate any sense of superiority to children” and Michael and Mary Shelley all passed away years ago and as Lech Blaine worked on the book his siblings wanted the same treatment in the book as their elders: to be seen as complex Lech Blaine (far right) with his siblings (L-R) John Hannah and Steven“They weren’t expecting me to paint like a rose-coloured portrait of them,” he says to paint a rose-coloured portrait of hope in modern Australia Through tracking the lives of his siblings and their siblings Blaine shows that whether someone’s life becomes an Australian dream or nightmare can hinge on an opaque mix of nature systematic factors beyond most people’s control and sheer luck The final result where the pangs of terror are never far from the next belly laugh To understand the story from his siblings’ perspective “I think it just created a real intimacy.” the Shelleys had threatened to tear the Blaine family apart piecing together their story helped bring them even closer Australian Gospel: A Family Saga by Lech Blaine is out on 5 November through Black Inc Books every day': Shelley Duvall on her defining performance in The Shining12 July 2024ShareSaveFiona MacdonaldShareSaveGetty ImagesUS actress Shelley Duvall spoke to the BBC in 1980 she describes her intense role and what it was like to work with the meticulous director Stanley Kubrick The US actress Shelley Duvall has died at the age of 75. A protégé of the film-maker Robert Altman, she starred in seven of his films, including Nashville and Popeye Yet arguably her defining role was as Wendy the wife of Jack Nicholson's hotel caretaker in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror classic The Shining Duvall spoke to the BBC about her intense role and what it was like to work with the meticulous director "My stamina has increased so much since The Shining," she said every day – it was so difficult being hysterical for that length of time." WATCH: 'My stamina increased so much since The Shining'.In History In History is a series which uses the BBC's unique audio and video archive to explore historical events that still resonate today. Subscribe to the accompanying weekly newsletter. 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The president blamed foreign-made movies for the American film industry's "very fast death". It comes as moviemakers worry the UK's thriving film industry could be hit by the new tariff threat. As Trump turns his attention to what he calls the "dying" US film industry, his solution has provoked strong reactions. On 12 June 1962, three men escaped from the notorious Alcatraz prison. While their fate remains unknown, the ingenuity of their escape continues to captivate. The Italian island immediately conjures up grand bougainvillea-draped villas and a whitewashed city centre, lined by luxury boutiques. But that's – literally – only half of the story. Film actor who starred in The Shining and made seven films with Robert Altman Altman said she could “swing all sides of the pendulum: charming She became part of his unofficial repertory company Her most widely seen performance was for Stanley Kubrick in his adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining (1980) the terrorised wife of a psychotic aspiring novelist (Jack Nicholson) Almost as famous as the film itself was the emotional battering she took on set under the director’s regime of relentless punishing takes – 127 of them in total for the scene in which Wendy is pursued by her taunting husband up a vast staircase limply swinging a baseball bat in his general direction for a year and one month,” she told the Los Angeles Times in 1991 The film tips into irony and even outright comedy at times tear-stained face is all it takes to be reminded that the stakes were high for her at least Duvall with Robin Williams in Popeye (1980) Photograph: Paramount/AllstarIt was Altman promoted her adoringly and helped extend her range audiences saw her inhabit a character who seemed to come from another planet entirely Duvall’s physiognomy and physicality made her the ideal choice to play the gawky string-bean Olive Oyl in Altman’s delirious live-action musical Popeye who called her casting “a deal-breaker” when studio executives suggested hiring the Saturday Night Live star Gilda Radner instead reflected that “nobody else could have played Olive Oyl like Shelley But it was Duvall’s bottomless empathy that helped make this cartoon character far from cartoonish. Her mastery of slapstick, as well as the pathos in her delicate, wobbly rendition of Harry Nilsson’s song He Needs Me resulted in a performance of Chaplinesque sublimity Altman first met her when he was casting the wacky Brewster McCloud (1970) Associates of his had run into Duvall at a party in Houston which she was throwing to sell paintings by Bernard Sampson and thought she was feigning bewilderment when she seemed not to understand why she was there “She had these eyelashes painted on her face so I took her out in the park and put a camera on her and just asked her questions and said: “She had the most amazing amount of energy I’d ever seen in anyone.” In Nashville (1975) one of the seven films Duvall made with Robert Altman Photograph: J Cummings/THA/ShutterstockAltman cast her as a Houston Astrodome guide who sleeps with and subsequently betrays the film’s title character A small part as a mail-order bride followed in the elegiac western McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971) Duvall was taken under the wing of that picture’s star It was on the Depression-era crime drama Thieves Like Us (1974) that Duvall first proved that she was more than just an unusual face Adapted from the same Edward Anderson novel that inspired Nicholas Ray’s 1948 classic They Live By Night the unwitting moll of a goofy amateur gangster (Keith Carradine) She was raw and uninhibited, her eyes crowded with love-hearts, her nerve endings seemingly exposed. The critic Pauline Kael fell hard for her: “She melts indifference,” Kael wrote “You’re unable to repress your response; you go right to her in delight saying ‘I’m yours’… she seems able to be herself on the screen in a way that nobody has ever been before … Her charm appears to be totally without affectation.” who starred with her in Altman’s next film where Duvall played a country music groupie called her work in Thieves Like Us “transcendent She’s sitting on the porch drinking a Coke in a swing The way she played that – so sweet and funny and heartbreaking She had a minor role as the wife of President Grover Cleveland in Altman’s irreverent western Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976) But it was in his woozy psychological drama 3 Women (1977) that she did her most layered and mysterious work a bossy-boots carer at a Palm Springs rehabilitation facility for elderly people Taking the innocent Pinky (Sissy Spacek) under her wing as co-worker and room-mate fancying herself a gal-about-town and the belle of the ball A narrative fracture midway through the film heralds an abrupt reversal that puts Millie in the submissive role Duvall, who wrote extensive diary entries, letters and meal recipes in character as preparation, won the best actress prize at the Cannes film festival that inspired Kubrick to cast her in The Shining With Woody Allen in Annie Hall (1977) Photograph: United Artists/AllstarShe was born in Fort Worth who was a cattle auctioneer before working as an insurance salesman The family moved around constantly during Shelley’s early years; by the time they finally settled in their first house in Houston the five-year-old was so used to living in hotels that she asked her mother where the elevator was Her father trained as a criminal lawyer and eventually became a judge Shelley was educated at Waltrip high school where she showed an interest in performing at an early age but once fled the stage during a talent contest after forgetting her lines She later heard her parents outside her bedroom door speculating that she may not be talented after all “That was definitely a turning point in my life,” she said “I guess that might have inspired me to be an overachiever I never felt the need to prove myself out of revenge; I wanted to contribute something She pursued an interest in science at South Texas Junior College but dropped out after a fellow student held a vivisected monkey close to her face Most of her first decade as an actor was dominated by her work with Altman, although she also made the occasional television appearance, including the lead role in Joan Micklin Silver’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976). she had a memorable bit-part as a vacuous rock journalist who describes sex with Woody Allen’s character as “a Kafka-esque experience” She was bags of fun in Terry Gilliam’s century-hopping comedy-adventure Time Bandits (1981) in which she and Michael Palin formed a daft double-act playing two pairs of upper-class twits in different centuries including Rapunzel opposite Jeff Bridges as the Prince and Gena Rowlands as the Witch The show was the first in a string of projects for children – including albums further series and the 1990 TV special Mother Goose Rock’n’Rhyme – which were all originated by her She starred in Burton’s morbidly inventive short film Frankenweenie (1984) and was a joyful addition to Roxanne (1987) Steve Martin’s comic update of Cyrano de Bergerac With Steve Martin in Roxanne (1987) Photograph: Columbia/AllstarShe had despairingly little to do in Suburban Commando (1991) but later appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s thriller The Underneath (1995) Jane Campion’s film of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady (1996) and the Canadian avant-gardist Guy Maddin’s Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997) and no screen credits whatsoever between the comedy Manna from Heaven (2002) and the horror film The Forest Hills (2023) including diabetes and mental health issues In the absence of more concrete explanations rumours that her fragile state could be blamed on The Shining began to fill the vacuum But a New York Times profile from earlier this year made it plain that Kubrick had nothing to do with it and that a likelier explanation for her protracted disappearance and decline was a series of shocks and traumas including a 1994 earthquake that had damaged her home in Los Angeles and the pressure of having to return to Texas to care for one of her three brothers She is survived by the musician Dan Gilroy Her marriage to Sampson ended in divorce in 1974 Leaders in the Law Judge Shelley Joseph disciplinary hearing to begin June 9 Richmond Joseph after a federal court appearance in 2019 A judge rules that an ex-CFO is entitled to indemnification A judge cannot use his equitable powers to disturb a voluntary acknowledgement of paternity once the deadlines[...] but a preposterous legal argument is not funny The Superior Court's Business Litigation Session is 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poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 -1822) was overshadowed during his lifetime by the likes of Lord Byron and even today Shelley’s widow Mary gets more attention as the creator of Frankenstein works like his “Adonais,” written after poet John Keats’ death and Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias,” on the hubris of mighty rulers Percy Bysshe Shelley mostly shows up in frock flicks in relation to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or as a brief mention in Byron’s life I can’t see that he’s gotten his own drama But at least one of these appearances is burned in my memory and maybe yours too Who’s your favorite Percy Bysshe Shelley onscreen Nothing I have yet read about the late Mr Shelley inclines to believe other than that he would be much less fun to live with (or in the neighbourhood if) than he is to read about my patience for poets is generally modest at best it amuses me to imagine Miss Dakota and Miss Elle Fanning having a Very Serious Discussion about whether a Pre-Raphaelite artist or a Romantic 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Terms of use Privacy Policy Accessibility Financial Statements Media Centre Contact Us was frequently at her best with Robert Altman and memorably terrorised by Stanley Kubrick Shelley Duvall, star of The Shining and Annie Hall, dies aged 75 Shelley Duvall, star of The Shining and Annie Hall, dies aged 75 It was Shelley Duvall’s destiny to become most widely known for a single film or maybe for a single poster image from it, shockingly and cartoonishly explicit. The image certainly did justice to her intensity and capacity for utterly unselfconscious performance, but said nothing about the subtlety, strength, wit and unfakable superstar quality that otherwise marked her work. Read moreThis was her Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining in 1980 playing the terrified wife of Jack Nicholson’s Jack Torrance marooned together in a haunted offseason hotel Duvall’s wide-open eyes and mouth – black chasms of fear an almost supernatural and faintly eroticised image the grinningly crazy face of Nicholson as he crashes through the door with an axe the image came to epitomise the sexual politics of Hollywood that shaped (but did not destroy) Duvall’s career Nicholson looks relaxed and enjoying himself but it’s uncomfortable to perceive given what we later found out about the toll that The Shining took on her endless takes and punishing schedules without a word of emollient praise having to deal with those alpha males Kubrick and Nicholson It was the role that found Duvall on the verge of turning to smaller character roles – and much later Duvall in her 60s and 70s and in (temporary) retirement would find herself in a perfect storm of media and industry hypocrisy and incomprehension She did not match what they expected of older women women who did not fit the behaviour model: condescension ageism and sexism greeted Duvall’s admittedly vulnerable or idiosyncratic behaviour: she was not a demurely submissive former celebrity she was not ashamed – as many clearly expected her to be – of the way she was; she didn’t conform to how people thought she should look She even refused to perform the role of recluse properly: being open she contributed an imperishable cameo in Annie Hall as the journalist and the film leaves us to wonder how American cinema might have changed if Shelley Duvall had had the title role to fabricate that kind of kooky performance who was Robert Altman’s muse and also appeared in McCabe & Mrs Miller Shelley Duvall, the much-loved US character actor and star of films such as The Shining, Annie Hall and Popeye, has died four days after her 75th birthday. Duvall died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas, according to Dan Gilroy, who had been her life partner since 1989. Read moreGilroy told The Hollywood Reporter: “My dear Duvall made her name in a series of landmark 1970s classics, including seven films with the director Robert Altman who first discovered her while she was in college in her hometown of Houston before starring as a mail-order bride in McCabe & Mrs Miller in 1971 Other collaborations between the pair included Thieves Like Us Buffalo Bill and the Indians and 1977’s 3 Women as a fantasising health spa attendant and which won her the best actress prize at the Cannes film festival With Sissy Spacek in 3 Women “was able to swing all sides of the pendulum: charming “I love him,” she told the New York Times in 1977, asked about the longevity of their relationship. “He offers me damn good roles. None of them have been alike. He has a great confidence in me, and a trust and respect for me, and he doesn’t put any restrictions on me or intimidate me.” Read moreShe added: “I remember the first advice he ever gave me: ‘Don’t take yourself seriously.’ Sometimes I find myself feeling self-centered and then all of a sudden that bit of advice will pop into my head and I’ll laugh.” Duvall remains perhaps best known for her role as the wife of Jack Nicholson’s axe-wielding author in The Shining (1980) The film had a famously gruelling 13-month shoot with one scene in which Nicholson’s character torments Duvall’s with a baseball bat reportedly running to 127 takes Kubrick had her “crying 12 hours a day for weeks on end,” said Duvall in a 1981 interview with People magazine If you want to get into pain and call it art Her iconic rendition of the song He Needs Me was later repurposed by Paul Thomas Anderson for the 2002 romcom Punch-Drunk Love. In 1981 she appeared in Terry Gilliam’s fantasy film Time Bandits; three years later she was in Tim Burton’s seminal comedy horror short Frankenweenie and in 1987, starred opposite Steve Martin in modern day Cyrano de Bergerac take, Roxanne. As the decade progressed, Duvall increasingly devoted herself to producing children’s television, particularly focusing on new adaptations of classic fairytales, for which she was Emmy nominated and won a Peabody award. She returned to acting only sporadically through the 1990s, most notably for supporting roles in Steven Soderbergh’s 1995 thriller The Underneath as well as Jane Campion’s Henry James adaptation The Portrait of a Lady the following year. A 21-year break from the profession ended in 2022, when Duvall featured in low-budget horror The Forest Hills. Read moreDuvall was open about her health struggles appearing on US talk show Dr Phil 2016 to discuss her mental illness I need help.” The episode was widely condemned for appearing to exploit a vulnerable older person In 2021, a fragile yet happy Duvall was interviewed in the Hollywood Reporter and discussed the trauma she had felt working on The Shining as well as in the aftermath of both the Dr Phil show and the 1994 earthquakes which destroyed much of her house when they worked together on a children’s show She had previously been married to the artist Bernard Sampson and in a relationship with the musician Paul Simon This stage adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel earns its keep — the production is provocative Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by David Catlin projection design by Robert Carleton Simmel Co-produced by Merrimack Repertory Theatre and Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Jay Wade in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Bullied by her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley (John Patrick Hayden) and his friends Lord Byron (Jay Wade) and Dr odds would seem to be that Mary Shelley (Jasimine Bouldin) would be too intimidated to contribute to a misogynistic storytelling competition set up by a trio of 19th-century writers along with Mary’s pregnant stepsister Claire Clairmont (Alexis Bronkovic) are spending the summer of 1816 in a cottage in Lake Geneva The yarn-spinning contest is well underway at the start of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: acerbic and overly self-confident Percy is convinced that Mary should simply concede that she will lose rather than try her hand at telling a story Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley’s tale of “a most hideous phantasm of fluid and flesh” would become the most popular and well-known horror story ever Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus is also the most freely adapted Gothic novel of all time — movies So it’s reasonable to wonder what playwright David Catlin was thinking with this 2019 take on the novel The Merrimack Repertory Theatre production earns its keep — it is beautifully performed The action begins in Lake Geneva and then quickly dives into Shelley’s narrative which is told through a series of letters and involves multiple storytellers the captain of a ship sailing to the North Pole in search of the source of the Aurora Borealis His crew spies a larger-than-life figure on the ice before they spot the nearly frozen but frantic Dr to be the hallucinations of a madman triggers a flashback to Frankenstein’s childhood in Geneva John Patrick Hayden in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein His parents adopt the orphaned daughter of an Italian nobleman and she and Victor appear destined to eventually fall in love and marry We also meet Victor’s close childhood friend Henry Clerval (Chace) The loss propels the grieving Victor on the quest to uncover “the elixir of life” — to learn how to bring people back from the dead Frankenstein at first crows that he has “created a completely new species.” But he quickly recognizes the danger Playwright Catlin’s script seamlessly tells this complicated horror story also finding the time to probe the circumstances that led to its creation who at the time of writing the novel was known by her maiden surname of Godwin was having an affair with the still-married Percy Bysshe Shelley Their daughter Clara was born prematurely on February 22 Mary refers to her enormous sorrow at this loss at one point admitting that “grief swallows me up like a vast sea.” the complexities of Shelley’s original version take center stage the revelatory intelligence and emotional depth so often ignored in commercial adaptations The savagery stems from Victor’s mistreatment of the creature because he cannot nurture what he has created The creature’s desire for revenge and disaster follows or the man who made him and then gave up all responsibility The moral conflict in Mary Shelley’s masterpiece  — intertwined with its condemnation of the fantasy of immortality — is explored frequently Most powerfully when the ghost of Victor’s mother appears and counsels him to “look for life in life Jasimine Bouldin and John Patrick Hayden in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with each actor turning in brilliantly illuminating moments Hayden’s intensity ebbs and flows; some of his most compelling moments come when he supplies quiet nuance Chace charms and chuckles his way through the sidekick roles aptly surprised and confused at what he’s called to witness Bronkovic has been cast as several characters who die And she can do comedy: she is hysterical as an old woman who finds a disheveled Victor washed up on the Scottish shore Wade’s creature taps into Mary Shelley’s original: the performer is thoughtful and physical His biggest leap is moving from the sophisticated and staid Bryon to the “monster” who is slowly crushed by angst and frustration The irresponsible Victor is horrified by the creature he’s created but we grow to understand his plight because of Wade’s measured interpretation seamlessly weaving between the roles of narrator and key player She deftly handles Victor’s narcissistic emotionalism and Percy’s microaggressions and sexism But Bouldin also registers a wide range of emotions — from the tragic to the poignant — when she steps out of character to reveal the fates of Lord Byron and Jeff Adelberg’s lighting leave room for the sumptuousness of Robert Carlton Stimmel’s lush projections and Zack Bennett’s intrusively delicious soundtrack The latter can be pulsating as well as subtle: thunder claps go BAR-ROOM! Most appealing are the hilariously grotesque sound effects that accompany Frankenstein as he harvests organs from a fresh corpse who maintains a pace that rarely feels rushed or overly frenetic He provides plenty of moments where the audience can catch its breath America’s first President to be tried and convicted of crimes is a creature who appears to be immune from the laws and the Constitution it is fair to speculate that Victor may be speaking of us when he declares “In our ignorance we unleash a trove of ills on the world.” David Greenham is an arts and culture consultant, adjunct lecturer on Drama at the University of Maine at Augusta, and is the former executive director of the Maine Arts Commission. He can be found at https://davidgreenham.com/ Mary herself would be appalled at the demonization of her beloved Percy Bysshe these are real people and the casting should represent who they were Why is representative casting not a thing if the historical figures are white Your comments at the end of your review were disgusting Your personal opinions of a man WE elected both by majority and by electoral college are shameful and irrelevant to the play You’re another liberal that can’t take losing Instead you want to blame STOP and look forward positively Your review was informative but there was too many names Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" The Lady’s Dressing Room (1732) BY JONATHAN SWIFT Five hours (and who can do it less in?) 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Close this message to accept our cookies, or find out how to remove them Sculptor Vincent Gray’s concept design featuring a neoclassical style bronze quill and extracts from Shelley’s poetry have been selected to go forward to the commissioning stage for a memorial dedicated to Horsham’s poet Percy Bysshe Shelley The Shelley Memorial Project and Horsham District Council are pleased to announce that the winning sculptor for the proposed commission of a lasting memorial to Horsham’s iconic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley is Chichester based Vincent’s concept design features an iconic intellectually engaging monument which celebrates the philosophies The bronze quill pen sits on a pillar inscribed with quotes from the internationally renowned poet’s work Over 1700 members of the public took part in the public consultation which included a vote on the four shortlisted concept designs In a close competition between the four designs Vincent Gray obtained the highest vote from the public Having reviewed the outcome of the public consultation and the views of key stakeholders the selection panel agreed that the Gray concept design best reflected the overall aims and criteria of The Shelley Memorial Project which are to establish a lasting public memorial to Shelley for public enjoyment and to commemorate Horsham’s most famous citizen Horsham District Council Cabinet Member for Leisure Culture and Green Spaces Cllr David Skipp said:“Our congratulations go out to Vincent Gray for this elegant and thought-provoking design “I am sure that once set in the beautiful surroundings of Horsham Park the sculpture will provide a focal point which is not only striking to look at but will also really connect with residents and visitors and will enhance the natural environment whilst commemorating such a significant figure for our town.” added: “We are delighted that we have now reached this major milestone in the project to deliver a permanent memorial to Shelley "The next stage of the process is to work with Vincent to develop the concept in line with feedback from the public consultation and other stakeholders to progress from the concept to the final design “I think the chosen design will produce a lasting source of pride and inspiration to our local community and further afield The Memorial will also celebrate Horsham's place in our national cultural heritage “Our thanks go out to all members of the public who took the time to share their views and give feedback on the shortlisted designs their comments helped greatly with our decision making We would also like to thank all four sculptors David Annand Vincent Gray and Robert Ward for presenting us with an excellent set of designs from which to choose.” Winning sculptor Vincent Gray commented: “I am profoundly honoured to learn my design concept through public consultation and the Shelley Memorial Project has been selected as a lasting memorial to Percy Bysshe Shelley I look forward to working with the Shelley memorial team and engaging with the Horsham community.” The Shelley Memorial Project have set a fundraising target for the completion and installation of the winning memorial They are keen to hear from those interested in supporting their campaign to raise funds To contact them about supporting the project please email: shelleymemorialproject@btinternet.com The Shelley Memorial Project has secured the support of Horsham District Council which has agreed to the installation of the selected memorial at the centre of Horsham Park near the pond Read the latest news Read the latest edition of Our District magazine for Horsham residents Horsham District Council media enquiriesCommunications Teampress@horsham.gov.uk Site and content © Horsham District Council 2025 Nathan Abrams has received and receives funding from charities and research organisations Bangor University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK View all partners the emotionally oppressed wife of the increasingly unstable writer Jack Torrance Duvall was Kubrick’s only serious consideration He had seen all her films and greatly admired her work but was convinced of her fit for the part after seeing her in Robert Altman’s strange and hypnotic dream film Kubrick saw Duvall as perfectly embodying the kind of woman who remains married to a man like Jack Torrance – even though she knows he has brutally assaulted their son The director understood that he couldn’t have someone ballsy like Jane Fonda playing the part saying: “You need someone who is mousy and vulnerable.” Kubrick told the French film critic Michel Ciment: “The wonderful thing about Shelley is her eccentric quality – the way she talks the way her nervous system is put together I think that most interesting actors have physical eccentricities about them which make their performances more interesting – and if they don’t But Kubrick’s on-set treatment of Duvall has become the stuff of legend She recalled how they were often at odds and he cut many of her lines Kubrick responded that Duvall could not say them correctly instructing her not to emphasise every line One demanding scene – the staircase scene where Wendy fends off Jack with a baseball bat – was shot 127 times but it turned out to be one of the best … in the film,” Duvall said afterwards Duvall later admitted that Kubrick “knew he was getting more out of me” by being tough the director elicited from Duvall a performance of anxious hysterical strength that matched Nicholson’s depiction of Jack’s growing madness Kubrick was delighted with Duvall’s performance It was an impressive performance from someone who got her start in the movies by accident Duvall was cast when she was asked at a party to take a part in Altman’s film Brewster McCloud which he was shooting on location in Houston in 1970 Altman clearly saw something special in Duvall He seemed transfixed by her unaffected sweetness recognising the potential in her unusual rawness She went on to star in a slew of his films As Mildred “Millie” Lammoreaux in Altman’s psychological thriller 3 Women she played a woman living in a dreary California desert town Her performance in particular was critically acclaimed and she shared the 1977 best actress award at Cannes Little did Duvall know she would soon have another Kafka-esque experience acting under the direction of Kubrick But she survived The Shining and went on to star as Olive Oyl in Altman’s film version of Popeye (1980) which showcased her skill in physical comedy there seemed such a fit between character and actor that Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert described Duvall as “born to play” Olive Oyl she had fun with a small role as Pansy in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits hosted and was executive producer of the children’s television programme Faerie Tale Theatre leading to a two-decade career in the genre during which she starred in and produced a number of shows for US television the roles seem to dry up and she vanished from the Hollywood radar until 2016 when she turned up in a miserably exploitative appearance on US pop psychology show Dr Phil was semi-coherent and emotionally troubled expanding the legend that Kubrick’s abusive behaviour had ruined her Despite both physical and mental health issues she returned to the big screen in the 2023 horror The Forest Hills and promoted it looking and sounding better than she had in years Shelley Duvall should not be remembered as a victim either in the role she played in The Shining or indeed as an actor or a woman She emerged in Kubrick’s film as the survivor who outwits her murderous husband and it is testimony to the strong roles she performed throughout her rich and varied career.