Mary Shelley was a literary pioneer and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist icon. With my new book, I'm carrying on the mission of my bloodline.

Shelley’s own life has also inspired dozens of autobiographies as well as film and television productions, most recently with Elle Fanning playing the author in 2017 biopic “Mary Shelley ...

But rather than smother Mary Shelley — author of Frankenstein, daughter of two eminent writers and wife of another — with soft cushions of antiquarian cultural prestige, Al Mansour and the ...

Author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on this day, Aug. 30, in 1797 in London. Shelley is best known as the author of the Gothic novel “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” and as ...

“Mary Shelley” is a rarity: a literary biopic with an argument. Which is by no means to say that the film, directed by Haifaa al-Mansour (“Wadjda”) forgoes the expected pleasures of the genre.

"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," on stage at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, delves into the lives of the author, her husband and their friends.