Mary Shelley's Gothic horror has stood the test of time and is now popular over 200 years ... When did Mary Shelley write Frankenstein, who was her poet husband Percy and what was the novelist’s ...

How did Mary Shelley come up with the idea for “Frankenstein”? Did that spooky storytelling contest at the Villa Diodati in 1816 -- you know, the one with Byron, John Polidori and Mary’s ...

How did Frankenstein come about?. When Mary was 16, she began an illicit liaison with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was a devoted follower of her father’s — and already married.

Mary Shelley grew to see the moral darkness of the “free love” and technological triumphalism that marked the radical London milieu of her youth. ... In 1951, Spark, then an unknown poet, ...

Elle Fanning stars in this uneven, "perfumed account" of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin's romance with poet Percy Shelley, and the fateful weekend that birthed her novel Frankenstein.

Shelley’s reputation has suffered more than any of the great English Romantic poets. Always the least read of his contemporaries John Keats and Byron, he was, nevertheless, the finest lyric poet ...

Shelley had stashed a book of John Keats poems in his pocket. The poet was cremated, but for some reason, his heart refused to burn. Modern-day physicians believe it may have calcified due to an ...

“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 ...

In the summer of 1816, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, poet Lord Byron, and physician John Polidori traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, for one of the most important vacations in literary history.

Directed by groundbreaking Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour, Mary Shelley details the author’s relationship with the poet Percy Shelley and the events that eventually lead to her ...

The “animal” was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who would grow up to be Mary Shelley, wife of the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and author of Frankenstein, ...