Possibly even more interesting than the story within Frankenstein is the story of its author, Mary Shelley. Born Mary ...

Young Mary struggled to come up with an idea but was inspired after hearing a discussion between Byron and Percy Shelley about galvanismâ the idea that electricity could stimulate life.

Read our review of Mary and the Hyenas at Wilton's Music Hall: musical-theatre tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft, created by ...

You do not have to go too far back to find great (or just popular) movies based on books. We have seen many a cinematic ...

Mary and the Hyenas is a two-hour musical romp through the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, the eighteenth-century writer and ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on ... were published in three volumes in 1818 without the name of its author. Some critics and other writers thought Percy Shelley had written ...

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.

Mary meets the 21 years old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, rising instantly a love interest between them. Returning to London little time later, Mary unexpectedly meets Percy again when he appears at ...