By the time she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley had written one of the most famous novels ever published. Embodying one of the central myths of Western culture, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, tells the story...

The most eloquent summary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's position in English letters is still Leigh Hunt's much-quoted couplet from "The Blue-Stocking Revels": "And Shelley, fourfam'd,--for her parents, her lord, / And the poor lone impossible...

Long after the event, Mary Shelley would recall the crucible out of which her most famous fictional progeny was fused. "In the summer of 1816, we visited Switzerland, and became the neighbors of Lord Byron.... But it proved a wet, ungenial summer, and...

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1797–1851), author of Frankenstein (1818), often considered the first science fiction novel and source of the universal modern image of science gone awry, was born in London on August 30 and died there on...

The daughter of noted authors Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, Shelley became widely known as a literary talent of her own right with the 1818 publication of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. The story of a scientist who attempts to bring...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - (1797 - 1851) (Born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) English novelist, editor, critic, short story and travel writer. Shelley is best known for her novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which has transcended the...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. She was married to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe...

Rasputina fills a unique niche in independent music, that of a ladies cello society, and for over ten years, they’ve been releasing highly stylized records that can be compared to little else. After taking a three-year hiatus, Rasputina is back with Oh Perilous World, and...

No sexy Inga, no green monster — and what is most important, no $450 seats."Frankenstein," a new musical now on view at 37 Arts, does have a last name in common with Mel Brooks' Broadway version, however. Hunter Foster has the part of Victor Frankenstein...

Wednesday 10th Perhaps it’s August that’s the cruelest month, breeding contempt out of asphalt and mixing sweat with low-grade irritation—because our fellow New Yorkers seem a bit squiggy these days, and we find ourselves in a rage when encountering anyone the least bit chipper...

"Follow my path exactly," my guide instructed sternly as we set off on the Vallee Blanche glacier descent, warning me of the crevasses hidden among the blankets of snow and boulders of ice that give the famed ski run its breathtaking beauty.The stunning Vallee Blanche...

In the essay that follows, Myers examines Wollstonecraft's writings for the Analytical Review as attempts by Wollstonecraft to develop her unique voice as a "theorist of gender," particularly as she attempts to combine sensibility and reason into a broader humanism.