Shelley’s health and death. In bad health, Shelley returned to England with her only surviving child, Percy Florence Shelley, ...

Mary Shelley, then only 24, spent the rest of her life, like Frankenstein's Creature, as a social outcast, because she had had children with a married man, whose wife had then committed suicide.

Any technology we don’t fully comprehend we turn into horror, a truism that reaches back to Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” ...

Mary Shelley was famously inspired to write “Frankenstein”—the tale of a monster and the man who created him—because of a ghost story competition. “Alive: The Mary Shelley Musical,” a First Stages ...

This Shakespeare Theatre Company world premiere brings freshness to the Mary Shelley story.

In theory, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was meant to fit snugly beside those efforts and other trendy lunges toward literary prestige in the industry.In fact, after Coppola elected to not direct ...

They were up to more than just that because soon Shelley was pregnant with her first child. Mary ran away with Percy. When Frankenstein was published it contained a preface by Percy Shelley, ...

“When Mary Shelley began writing ‘Frankenstein’ in the summer of 1816, she was a 19-year-old single mother with one dead and one living child, in love with a married man and haunted by the legacy of ...