Tracy Beaker Tracy Beaker Tracy Beaker is the lead character in the "Tracy Beaker" franchise. After first appearing as the main character in Jacqueline Wilson's 1991 book "The Story of Tracy Beaker", she appeared in the popular children's television drama of the same name, portrayed by Dani Harmer, and its sequel series "Tracy Beaker Returns", as well as numerous spin-offs, Jacqueline Wilson books, a play and a video game. In her first appearances in the "Tracy Beaker" books and in the television series "The Story of Tracy Beaker", Tracy lives in care at a care home referred to as "The Dumping Ground".
The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein is a 2007 book written and published by John Lauritsen, in which the author argues that the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, is the real author of "Frankenstein" (1818), that the novel "has consistently been underrated and misinterpreted", and that its dominant theme is "male love". Lauritsen maintains that handwriting cannot be used to determine the actual author of "Frankenstein". His work received positive reviews in gay publications. However, some commentators in other publications rejected Lauritsen's views and supported the conventional view that "Frankenstein" was written