There aren’t many authors who can claim to have had as meaningful and lasting an impact as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, whose masterpiece “Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus” made an indelible ...

Director Guillermo del Toro would have been a better student in the three-month deep dive on his favorite book than my ...

Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the pioneering feminist text “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” lived just 10 days after the birth of her daughter, Mary Shelley. For the future author of ...

The horror in both del Toro’s film & Shelley’s original emerges when ingenuity is divorced from responsibility ...

It's alive! It's alive! Frankenstein has been in lots of movies, from the classics you know and love, to the amazing cult ...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley loved her son -- but she wished he were a little bit taller. That’s what she wrote in one of the letters in a recently discovered cache. The correspondence is the first set ...

Did you ever stop and think, "I'm really awesome, and so is my mom. I wish someone would write a book about our lives so everyone else could experience the general awesomeness that is us." You know ...

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley, by Charlotte Gordon, Random House, 672 pages, $30 Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, Mary Shelley, ...

Nearly all moviegoers know the plot of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, which Mary Shelley precociously wrote at 18. Many of them are also familiar with the novel's backstory, dramatized in ...

I WAS one of ten persons to whom Frances Wright, in December of 1826, conveyed the lands of Nashoba, consisting of eighteen hundred and sixty acres, “in perpetual trust for the benefit of the negro ...

Mary Wollstonecraft — the British feminist writer and philosopher who advocated for the social and educational equality of women, in the 18th century, no less — has been honored with a public statue, ...