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

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 ...

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 ...

published an article in the yearly Karkonosz which describes a potential connection between his home town and… Mary Shelley’s famous novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. According to ...

If book lovers ... Harriet Shelley later took her own life, an event that haunted Mary, and she and Percy eventually married in 1816 to quell public outrage. The same year, Frankenstein was ...