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

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...

Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whom Mary Shelley married the same year she started "Frankenstein," was also fascinated with science. He went to anatomy classes, wrote a poem about hot air balloons ...

Starring Jamie Parker as Frankenstein. In Switzerland 1816, by the shore of Lake Geneva, the poet Shelley and his future wife Mary, together with her step-sister Claire, meet the infamous Lord Byron.

Shelley places Victor Frankenstein's childhood in Geneva—a nod, perhaps, to where she first conjured him. In June 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then 18, joined her future husband, the poet ...

The novelist’s latest look into history’s dark places reimagines Mary Shelley’s intense teenage spell in Dundee.

Mary's life took a dramatic turn at the age of 16. She had fallen in love with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley -- he was 21, already married, and had a child with his wife, Harriet. He was a fan of ...

The film follows the young Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin (Elle Fanning) as she rebels against her parents, runs away with the radical poet Percey Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Booth) – taking her ...