Mary Shelley was a literary pioneer and her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist icon. With my new book, I'm carrying on the mission of my bloodline.

Mary had eloped with the already-married young aristocrat Shelley at age 16 in 1814, having met him in the home of her father, the prominent atheist and radical-leftist thinker William Godwin.

“Mary Shelley” begins in the author’s late teens, where Mary (Elle Fanning) lives with her father, author William Godwin (Stephen Dillane, “Game of Thrones”), and the ghost (figurative ...

Mary Shelley is a more complicated affair, and not just because the story contains lots of sex. (Al Mansour, following British if not Saudi precedent, keeps everything but kissing, ...

Thus, in “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” the creepy monster, a shape-shifter capable of reflecting the desires of the viewer, seems to be birthed out of a sensual Swiss boudoir, ...

Mary Shelley never soars the way the film so clearly wants to, though. It’s hard to invest in the movie’s core relationship when it becomes clear just what an uncompromising and unsympathetic ...

Movie review. There’s no question that Mary Shelley’s life was cinematic.While still in her teens, she began to write the horror classic “Frankenstein,” a book conceived on one of ...