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.

But when prejudices of these times cause the novel to be attributed to Percy Shelley, it forces Mary to fight by claiming the novel as her own to prove that a woman can be the writer as she is.

2. Mary Shelley had some seriously strong genes She was born to remarkable parents – Mary Wollstonecraft, the famous feminist writer, and William Godwin, the political philosopher. She never ...

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 Shelley started writing Frankenstein in 1816 when her friends held a competition to write a scary story. Her friends included the famous poets Percy Shelley and Lord Byron. Shelley’s story ...

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

Is there a single work of horror fiction more influential than Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein? The 1818 novel — in which the titular scientist successfully manages to reanimate the dead — has ...

OUR next play to open in the Wharfeside at the end of this month is compelling play Mary Shelley.