First created by Mary Shelley in her groundbreaking 1818 ... An engraved frontispiece - reportedly the first-ever illustration of Frankenstein’s Monster – shows a muscular Smith wearing ...

Theodor von Holst, an overlooked Gothic artist, influenced Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites, beginning with his haunting 1831 ...

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 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 ...

Senior Ivy Laine Posey tells a powerful story about gender identity in her thesis play, titled “Victor Built a Body; or, the ...