Who was a model for Mary Shelley’s protagonist? Candidates include a 17th-century alchemist and Charles Darwin’s grandfather.

Many assumed Percy had written it, as a woman writing such a powerful ... Percy drowned in a boating accident in 1822. Mary, a widow at 24, wanted to preserve her husband's literary legacy. She ...

The argument against Mary Shelley has the same whiff as the case against Shakespeare being the author of the works attributed to him. In the same way that people question ... ‘able midwife who helped ...

In 1814, Regency-era London, Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin is a 16 years old aspiring writer who works in the bookshop ... the 21 years old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, rising instantly a love interest ...