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 ...

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

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

the English author Mary Shelley confronted human beings’ instinctive anthropocentrism in her 1826 novel, The Last Man, which was published eight years after Frankenstein and has recently been ...

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 ...

Romance, drama, and sorrow abound in Mary Shelley, a new biopic about the famed author of Frankenstein. The film follows the young Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin (Elle Fanning) as she rebels against ...