When Mary was 16, she began an illicit liaison with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Frankenstein; or, The Modern ...

Shelley places Victor Frankenstein's childhood in Geneva—a nod, perhaps, to where she first conjured him. In June 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then 18, joined her future husband ...

Mary Shelley was only 21 years old when Frankenstein was first published in 1818. Young women were not expected to have careers at this time so she published the book anonymously, hoping that ...

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First created by Mary Shelley in her groundbreaking 1818 novel, Frankenstein’s Monster has become a cultural institution in the horror genre, having been made famous on screen by Boris Karloff ...

Some believe that the castle, and a scientist who lived there at the time, were the inspiration for Mary Shelley’s book "Frankenstein". Although Shelley never revealed the true inspirations for ...

San Francisco Ballet’s production of Liam Scarlett’s “Frankenstein" returned to the War Memorial Opera House stage for the ...