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 ...

lives on in the teenage Mary, both her ideals and strength of character are tested as her world becomes increasingly bleak. Her new life with Shelley – who conveniently forgets to tell her he is ...