We know from the biographical labors of Muriel Spark and Daisy Hay that Mary resisted being sexually “shared” by Shelley with his friend James Hogg, despite the “free-love” background of ...

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

One such seems to have been Mary Shelley’s mother, the feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, who after leaping from Putney Bridge into the Thames in the depth of depression complained “I have only to ...

‘We will each write a ghost story,’ Lord Byron challenged the guests at his Italian villa during the summer of 1816. The incessant rain resulting from the spectacular eruption of Indonesia’s Mount ...

Thus, I could not tell my students that Mary Shelley published her book anonymously ... this edition of “Frankenstein” is a cornucopia of background information — a New Critics’ nightmare.

Mary Shelley, a new play by Helen Edmundson ... A portrait of Wollstonecraft hangs above Godwin’s desk. All of this background is beautifully expressed in the play through the relations within ...

“Mary Shelley” covers two or three years ... Despite his aristocratic background, Shelley’s financial status is precarious in the extreme, and the threesome are frequently on the run from ...