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 ...

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.

In 1821, while Byron and Shelley briefly shared what they high-mindedly called an ‘artist’s colony’ in Pisa, along with Mary Shelley and Byron’s current squeeze Contessa Teresa ...

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 ...