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 ...

MARY Shelley’s horror novel Frankenstein has delighted and terrified generations as it explores what really makes someone human. As the book turns 202 we bring you all you need to know about … ...

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.

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 return to England that autumn would be blighted by two tragic circumstances: the death Mary’s younger half-sister Fanny and the suicide of Harriet Shelley, who had been forgotten in ...

When Percy Bysshe Shelley became acquainted with a teenage Mary Godwin, the poet was married to a different woman—but that didn’t stop him from falling for Godwin.

“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 ...

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, one of the most enduring and ...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" when she was 18 years old. Hulton Archive/Getty Images Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whom Mary Shelley married the same year she started "Frankenstein ...

Shelley's body and those of his two sailing companions were found 10 days later, identifiable only by their clothing. Shelley had stashed a book of John Keats poems in his pocket.

Did Mary Shelley Keep Her Late Husband's Heart? A ghoulish story of eternal love is quite fitting for the Gothic novelist.