Possibly even more interesting than the story within Frankenstein is the story of its author, Mary Shelley.. Born Mary ...

“Mary Shelley” begins in the author’s late teens, where Mary (Elle Fanning) lives with her father, author William Godwin (Stephen Dillane, “Game of Thrones”), and the ghost (figurative ...

Romance, drama, and sorrow abound in Mary Shelley, a new biopic about the famed author of Frankenstein.. The film follows the young Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin (Elle Fanning) as she rebels against ...

Mary had eloped with the already-married young aristocrat Shelley at age 16 in 1814, having met him in the home of her father, the prominent atheist and radical-leftist thinker William Godwin.

"Mary Shelley had a complicated relationship to feminism," Mellor said. "She made a living supporting herself and her son by writing, which was not common, especially for a single woman." Willem ...

Mary Shelley set a high bar for herself with Frankenstein. Her 1826 novel The Last Man also explores philosophical themes under the guise of a sci-fi premise. In the dystopian tale, ...

Even considering Mary Shelley’s extraordinary education, though, there is something that does not quite fit together in this origin theory. As Miranda Seymour, author of a recent biography, has ...

Author Mary Shelley wrote the classic novel "Frankenstein" when she was just 18, but despite her early literary success, she lived a life full of loss. Her mother, groundbreaking feminist writer ...

Mary Shelley is a more complicated affair, and not just because the story contains lots of sex. (Al Mansour, following British if not Saudi precedent, keeps everything but kissing, ...