and the two never got along. When Mary was 16, she began an illicit liaison with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was ...

But when prejudices of these times cause the novel to be attributed to Percy Shelley, it forces Mary to fight by claiming the novel as her own to prove that a woman can be the writer as she is.

Mary’s was voted the best. 2. Mary Shelley had some seriously strong genes She was born to remarkable parents – Mary Wollstonecraft, the famous feminist writer, and William Godwin, the ...

Mary Shelley’s step sister, hot-headed, vivacious, and determined to make the most famous poet in the world fall in love with her. “In the handful of novels where Claire has appeared, she’s ...

She died in 1797, aged 38, just days after the birth of her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who would go on to write Frankenstein. Ms Lennon said there were parallels between ...

These experiments were not successful, but Shelley used them as inspiration for Victor’s creation. She explored society’s fears about what might happen if these experiments succeeded.

OUR next play to open in the Wharfeside at the end of this month is compelling play Mary Shelley.

Shelley Ford has been sewing since she was 9 and has taken up quilting in the past 10 years. Last year she made a Quit of ...