DESPITE ANNE MELLOR’s promise to examine ‘the entire range of Mary Shelley’s life and writing’, two-thirds of this book are dedicated to an analysis of Frankenstein, ‘Shelley’s greatest novel’ ...

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 ...

And in those pages was a faithful understanding of Victor Frankenstein, the young and eager medical student living in 18th century Switzerland. By that detail alone, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ...

To read Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is to read a good number of stories told on top of each other. I’ve heard readings of the novel as a direct retelling of “Paradise Lost,” a ...

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

Mary Shelley was only 18 when she first told a group the story of “Frankenstein,” and the novel was published when she was just 20. “In 1816, no one was clamoring for a woman to write ...

It is a situation that Mary Shelley might have appreciated for, as it turned out, the university was building not one but two Frankensteins who would come back to savage them. The remarkable thing is ...

In Villa Diodati, at the shore of Lake Geneva, Mary visited Lord Byron and John Polidori together with her husband Percy Shelley. This is the place where she began writing Frankenstein.

It has been six years since the Lone Star Ballet did its last version of the age-old novel, "Frankenstein," written by Mary Shelley. Audiences were thrilled by the 1931 movie version starring ...