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

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...

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 born. After Frankenstein ...

When Mary and Claire travel at the house of one of William's friends in Scotland, Mary meets the 21 years old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley ... a few months after to born. Broken by suffering and ...