Artistic License History / The Frankenstein Chronicles

• William Blake's death is slightly rescheduled to give his impact on the story more weight.
• Charles Dickens did get his start in writing as a journalist with the Pen Name "Boz", but did so years after the setting of the first season.
• The Anatomy Act was passed later, in 1832. However, it did indeed follow revelations that body snatchers were murdering people to provide their bodies for dissection. The act did not outlaw unconventional medical practice.
• In 1827 Mary Shelley was thirty, but is played by an actress a decade older. Who also plays her at age seventeen in a flashback. Charles Dickens was a mere fifteen, but is an adult here, played by a thirty two year old actor.
• Ada Lovelace was only fifteen in 1830. Here the actress playing her is at least twice that age.
• The portrait of Johann Dippel, which appears in the last episode of season 1 and the first episode of season 2, depicts a man with a lean face, short reddish hair and a goatee. A portrait of the real Johann Dippel shows him as clean-shaven with a round face and thick, curly hair.

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