and the two never got along. When Mary was 16, she began an illicit liaison with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was ...

In June 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then 18, joined her future husband, the poet Percy Shelley, her stepsister Claire, Lord Byron and the physician John Polidori for a holiday here.

Mary was on holiday with her lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, their four-month-old son William, their friend Lord Byron and Byron’s physician, John Polidori. Frankenstein: First told under stormy ...

Young Mary struggled to come up with an idea but was inspired after hearing a discussion between Byron and Percy Shelley about galvanismâ the idea that electricity could stimulate life.

In the end, it will all be swept away by time. But perhaps Percy and Mary Shelley did find a kind of immortality as they live on in their ideas and in their work. Hip-Hop star Akala and poet ...

Above the statue to Shakespeare in Poets' Corner is a small oval mural tablet with a lyre to Romantic poet Percy Shelley. This is joined with a ... But in 1814 he eloped abroad with Mary ...

OUR next play to open in the Wharfeside at the end of this month is compelling play Mary Shelley.

From Thursday, April 24th in the Wharfeside Theatre, the Ilkley Players will bring to life the extraordinary tale of Mary Shelley and how she ...