Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus was first published on January 1, 1818. 200 years ago. On, now, to Franke...

In 1816, Lord Byron rented the manor known as the Villa Diodati, near Cologny, on Lake Geneva. The house already had solid literary cred...

An article in the November 2011 issue of Sky & Telescope reveals the precise moment, down to date and hour, when Mary Shelley c...

Mary Shelley’s own story of having first imagined Frankenstein as a waking dream became a pop culture anecdote, endlessly repeated. Here,...

We mark the birthday, this weekend, of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, née Mary Godwin on 30 August, 1797. On this occasion, we also note ...

Now THIS is what the web was created for! I’m not kidding. Recently, on Halloween last, the existing manuscript of Frankenstein was ma...

A Mary Shelley in caricature, with movie monster flattop, neck bolts and Bride hairstreaks. Shelley’s sad-eyed likeness comes from Ric...

As if conjured, The Monster rises like a supernatural apparition in this unsigned illustration of the creation scene from Frankenstein ...

Under a cover evoking William Powell Firth’s painting of their courtship at the Old Saint Pancras churchyard, here is the first of a two-v...

A true treasure has come to light: A rare, first edition copy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus , inscribed “ To...

Cailey Tervo describes herself as “a young artist doing her best to do better”. Judging from this portrait of Mary Shelley, captured in ...

An important exhibition celebrating the literary and cultural legacy of Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley, and Mary’s parents, William G...

An article in the November 2011 issue of Sky & Telescope reveals the precise moment, down to date and hour, when Mary Shelley conce...

Significant anniversaries this past week: It was 195 years ago that Mary Shelley first conceived of Frankenstein , and it was 80 years ago...

A rediscovered painting of Mary Shelley, never shown before, is just one of the treasures currently on display at the Bodleian Library in Ox...

Keys to understanding Frankenstein are found in understanding its author, Mary Shelley: Her influences, her life, her entourage, and the ...

The introduction to Esao Andrews’ current exhibition at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York states that the artist’s “ distinctly figu...

There are very few portraits of Mary Shelley, born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on this day, August 30, in 1797. Sadly, she never sat for a...

An 1889 oil painting by Louis Édouard Fournier, The Funeral of Shelley , depicts a somber ceremony as the body of Percy Bysshe Shelley is ...

“ As a child I scribbled; and my favourite pastime, during the hours given me for recreation, was to "write stories." Still I h...