Possibly even more interesting than the story within Frankenstein is the story of its author, Mary Shelley. Born Mary ...

who killed herself while Mary was writing the novel.” Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus was published in 1818; by 1851 it had sold 7,000 copies, more than all of Percy Shelley’s poetry ...

Byron, already famous for his poetry and infamous for his libertine lifestyle ... mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.’ But did Mary Shelley actually write Frankenstein? It’s a ...

whom Mary Shelley married the same year she started "Frankenstein," was also fascinated with science. He went to anatomy classes, wrote a poem about hot air balloons, and tried to clear up his ...

Frankenstein originated with a ghost story contest. Two hundred years later, it’s safe to say that Mary Shelley won ... in the pages of Percy Shelley’s poem Adonais.

Romance, drama, and sorrow abound in Mary Shelley, a new biopic about the famed author of Frankenstein. The film follows the young Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin (Elle Fanning) as she rebels against ...