In the 150 years since her death, Mary Shelley has suffered at the hands of throngs of literary critics and historians. Now, in Miranda Seymour, she finds a biographer both meticulous and sympathetic.

Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the pioneering feminist text “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” lived just 10 days after the birth of her daughter, Mary Shelley. For the future author of ...

IT’S almost impossible not to take a side when writing about the Shelleys and their "circle". The early deaths of young women; the tragic loss of so many babies; the love affairs and betrayals of ...

Born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August 30, 1797, in London, England, Shelley was the daughter of two famous philosophers and writers: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote The ...

TCA: The author of "Frankenstein" was supposed to be featured after Picasso. Mary Shelley brought “Frankenstein” to life, but her own life was found wanting when it comes to Nat Geo. The author was ...

Anne K. Mellor. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. NY: Methuen, 1988. xx + 276pp. illus. $25.00 (cloth); Routledge, 1989. $14.95 (paper). Allene ...

The last time we mentioned the upcoming Mary Shelley biography film starring Elle Fanning was when we shared your first look at Fanning as the famed writer of “Frankenstein” herself (which you can see ...

On a miserably rainy night in June 1816, a group of friends and lovers huddled around the fireplace in their rented villa near Lake Geneva, telling ghost stories and challenging each other to write ...

The Frankenstein Chronicles imagines a grisly murder spree gripping 1827 London. Children are being abducted, murdered, and sold to someone cutting them apart and reassembling them Frankenstein-style.

She was the daughter of two advanced thinkers: radical philosopher William Godwin and pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. She became the wife of one of the world’s most sublime lyric poets, Percy ...