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

Shelley places Victor Frankenstein's childhood in Geneva—a nod, perhaps, to where she first conjured him. In June 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then 18, joined her future husband ...

Mary Shelley was only 21 years old when Frankenstein was first published in 1818. Young women were not expected to have careers at this time so she published the book anonymously, hoping that ...

Was there a real Dr. Frankenstein ... was a serious endeavor in scientific circles. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) wrote the book as an exploration of the ethics of such experimentation.