To those who know Mary Shelley best, the flavor and quality of ... from her philosopher parents to her poet husband Percy Shelley. Beyond her novels, she displayed an interest in the darker ...

Her parents were two iconic philosophers ... but her heart always belonged to Shelley. Mary gave birth prematurely to a baby girl who died, and was subsequently severely depressed - even ...

But Shelley already had a wife and Mary was only 16, so they eloped to France in 1814, taking her half-sister Claire Clairmont with them. They felt they were living out her parents' philosophical ...

Haifaa Al-Mansour, the director of this Mary Shelley bio pic, also knows what it's like to defy convention and put oneself at risk of public censure. Al-Mansour is the first female filmmaker in ...

The film follows the young Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin (Elle Fanning) as she rebels against her parents, runs away with the radical poet Percey Bysshe Shelley (Douglas Booth) – taking her ...

He married their neighbor, Mary Jane Clairmont. However, the stepmother and stepchild would have a troubled relationship. Shelley's parents welcomed many notable artists, scientists, and ...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ... a hyper-literate household attuned to the latest scientific quests, and her parents (Godwin soon remarried) hosted many intellectual visitors.

In theory, “Mary Shelley” should be a fascinating biopic ... At others, we must watch Mary grapple with the legacy of her famous parents, in whose shadow she yearns to stop living in.