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.

His relentlessly documented study takes account of all the biographical information we have concerning Mary Shelley and her circle, of all of her and Percy Shelley's pertinent writings, of the ...

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.

Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein in 1816 when her friends held a competition to write a scary story. Her friends included the famous poets Percy Shelley and Lord Byron. Shelley’s story ...

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 ...

Opening on Thursday, April 24th in the Wharfeside Theatre is Mary Shelley, a play by multiple award- winning playwright and screen writer ...