Born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on Aug. 30, 1797 and raised by her father, an anarchist and political philosopher named ...

From a volcano in Indonesia to a frog in Bologna, a ghoulishly large number of ideas and events wormed into Mary Shelley's dazzling ... ago and twitching back to life this month in the new ...

Mary Shelley What does one say ... the history of its conception over several days of dark and stormy weather in June 1816 has passed from fact to myth. In her 1831 introduction to the third edition ...