| 单词 | Mary Shelley |
| 例句 | Charlotte Gordon, a professor of humanities at Endicott College, is the author, most recently, of “Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley.” ‘A Catalog of Birds’ is a soaring new novel about love and loss 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z When it appeared in 1979, “The Madwoman in the Attic” thrilled readers by brilliantly tracing the “anxiety of authorship” through the work of 19th-century female writers like Mary Shelley, the Brontë sisters and Emily Dickinson. The Authors of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic’ Are Back With a New (Angry) Book 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z I said, “No, that will tear it to pieces. You’re going too far with the comedy, we’ll lose Mary Shelley and James Whale.” ‘We Feel a Kinship With the Creature’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley usually gets mad props as the progenitor of feminist science fiction for her 1818 "Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus." Close encounters with feminist science fiction in 'Sisters of the Revolution' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z You know the story: Dr. Polidori, a lesser sidekick to the godlike Byron, emerges from the summer with a vampire tale, and Mary Shelley dreams up “Frankenstein.” Monsters take the stage in a new Gothic musical and a delayed play 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Nobody screams “It’s alive!” in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ comes ALIVE on Halloween 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Again, perhaps Mary Shelley had a similar upbringing to Mary Wollstonecraft. The Brontës, Shelleys & Kingsley and Martin Amis: Research suggests relatives share writing styles 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z The eponymous heroines of two other recent movies, “Mary Shelley” and “Colette,” hack through patriarchal society on their own terms — in the 19th and 20th centuries, no less. Onscreen, Women Are Giving Patriarchy the Pink Slip 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Mary Shelley's story also throbs with a fierce sense of injustice: a cultivated French family is ruined by its defiance of government, the innocent suffer through Victor's divine presumption. Frankenstein - review 2011-02-24T00:46:25Z But it’s not about that, it’s about how we can succeed and help women move forward, and Mary Shelley did succeed, in spite of everything. A Pioneering Saudi Director on Her New Film, ‘Mary Shelley’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Gender also figured prominently in the book that won for best biography: Charlotte Gordon’s Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley profiled the two early feminists. 'The Sellout' Wins National Book Critics Circle Award 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z That’s a notion too often ignored in Neal Bell’s “Monster,” a proficient adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” that shouts out its grand ideas but forgets that quiet gestures also have the power to awe. Theater Review: ‘Monster,‘ From Potomac Theater Project, at Atlantic Stage 2 2012-07-13T22:40:30Z Not for nothing did Mary Shelley give “Frankenstein” the subtitle “The Modern Prometheus”; the finest genre fiction has always examined humanity through allegory. Review: In ‘Upload,’ Do Blockchains Dream of Electric Lizards? 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Horror has its classics – Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker, for example, though both are better known from celluloid than paper. Horror: a genre doomed to literary hell? 2012-11-07T11:47:02Z Initially the producers announced "Frankenstein" author Mary Shelley as the first woman to be featured in the series only to realize they just wasn't enough content there to fill eight episodes. Capturing how Aretha Franklin could "alchemize her pain into sonic gold" 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The teenage Mary Shelley lies sleeping, and in her dreaming mind, a monster jolts to life, electrified. Review: In ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ a Monster to Love 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z “Frankenstein,” an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, had cost a reported $2 million, at the time a record for a Broadway play. A ‘Frankenstein’ That Never Lived 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z That Shepherd dislikes Mary Shelley is clear, but the cloak of does not absolve her of responsibility to the facts, especially not when she claims in prefatory matter that her thesis is supported by research. A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd – review 2013-03-01T17:50:01Z While such an explanation seems highly unlikely, what is undeniable is that Mary Shelley, without having known her mother, grew to resemble her literary style. The Brontës, Shelleys & Kingsley and Martin Amis: Research suggests relatives share writing styles 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Rereading “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus,” and seeing it vividly dramatized by Book-It Repertory Theatre, it is hard not to wonder if Mary Shelley pulled off the biggest literary hoax of the last two centuries. Book-It conjures ‘Frankenstein’ 2014-02-20T19:41:35Z Mary Shelley herself suffered a nearly unbearable loss when her brilliant husband, who defied convention and authority, drowned at sea in 1822. Hopelessly romantic: ‘Frankenstein’ at Book-It 2014-02-07T21:39:52Z Among the hundreds of graves are those of Scottish writer Tobias Smollett, Irish aristocrat Margaret King – taught by Wollstonecraft and friend to her daughter, Mary Shelley – and the English merchant Robert Bateman. Italians unveil long-lost tomb medallion of Scottish MP 2013-05-18T11:39:00Z It was none other than the godmother of goth, Mary Shelley, who wrote one of the first plague novels. Review | Coronavirus feels like something out of a sci-fi novel. Here’s how writers have imagined similar scenarios. 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Her first play, Blood and Ice, about Mary Shelley and the writing of Frankenstein, is a brilliant, almost feverishly poetic and dramatic exploration of the feminist impulse and its limits. Scotland has the makings of a great makar in Liz Lochhead 2011-01-19T17:16:41Z “Mary Shelley” is a rarity: a literary biopic with an argument. Review: ‘Mary Shelley’ Twists Pain and Passion Into a Monster 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z It was salon theories about the rumoured posthumous reanimation work of Erasmus Darwin that inspired Mary Shelley to write her masterpiece, Frankenstein. Stage chemistry: the marriage of science and theatre is going strong 2011-03-09T14:13:20Z Bainbridge referred to her workroom as her “laboratory,” and there was something a little Dr. Frankenstein about her, in either Mary Shelley’s or Mel Brooks’s iteration. Beryl Bainbridge: The writer who used tragedy as an entry point into farce 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z By the time of Mary Shelley’s death in 1851 at age 53, she’d been widowed for three decades, having devoted herself to editing her late husband’s verse and prose while raising their only surviving child. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Given the monster stories set upon the world by Mary Shelley and other masters of the macabre, Brooks is trying to fill some awfully big shoes here. Review | A great Bigfoot novel may be lurking out there. Max Brooks’s ‘Devolution’ isn’t it. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z One thing that intrigued me was like, say Mary Shelley with "Frankenstein." "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z Like its 8-foot creature, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” has had long legs since its publication 200 years ago. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Some of us may even sit down to reread Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” or Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” Review: ‘The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron,’ by Andrew McConnell Stott Sarah Fornace plays both the author Mary Shelley and her creation Victor Frankenstein in Manual Cinema's “Frankenstein.” It’s Alive! Well, the Puppeteers Are 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z This new solo show draws on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and James Whale's 1931 movie of the novel to tell Sturrock's story of his road from paralysis to recovery. This week's new theatre 2011-04-08T23:08:36Z Victor Frankenstein misses these sweet details — the inarticulate sound, the grin, the outstretched hand — but Mary Shelley knows what they signify. Alice McDermott Is Reading ‘Frankenstein’ for the First Time 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z It was a yarn Mary Shelley would have appreciated. Matt Tyrnauer: Chronicler of Trump’s Mentor Roy Cohn 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z It's been 192 years since Mary Shelley published her gothic masterpiece "Frankenstein," and the versatility of Shelley's "modern Prometheus" mythology continues unabated. 'Splice': Thriller brings a human/animal hybrid to life 2010-06-03T20:10:00Z It is a horror movie in the tradition of Mary Shelley and yet also something of Beauty and the Beast, with the beastly father-figure turning his innocent daughter into something repulsive. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z She also analyzes “Frankenstein” and Mary Shelley’s other proto-science-fiction novel, “The Last Man,” before explaining why Heathcliff is her favorite villain and Georges Simenon one of her favorite authors. Michael Dirda reviews “The Informed Air: Essays by Muriel Spark” I knew theoretically about Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker – but I didn't. Why the Final Girl and horror have always felt queer: "We've got to find our way to survive" 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The author of lives of Mary Shelley and Robert Graves, among many others, Miranda Seymour artfully joins them here. Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Legacy Left to Byron’s Wife and Daughter 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z You ask me about adapting a classic — which “Frankissstein” doesn’t do, though it does try to recreate some of the thinking and working life of Mary Shelley, alongside a contemporary look at A.I. Jeanette Winterson Owns the Entire Oxford English Dictionary 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z In her 1818 novel “Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus,” the precocious 19-year old Mary Shelley, wife of famed Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, wanted her book to terrify but also incite serious debate. Hopelessly romantic: ‘Frankenstein’ at Book-It 2014-02-07T21:39:52Z I'm finally going to read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and, having only just discovered Mrs Palfrey At the Claremont, I shall read Elizabeth Taylor's books by the armful. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z Its author, Mary Shelley, significantly revised and republished a more popular edition in 1831. From ‘Frankenstein’ to Nora Roberts in 200 Years 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z It was published the following year in the volume he and Mary Shelley jointly compiled, History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland. Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2013-03-11T13:41:42Z Versions of those two tales, based on the novels by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley, will be staged in repertory at the beginning of 2020. John Doyle to Direct ‘Assassins’ at Classic Stage Company 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Wells, and Mary Shelley, set in a place and time where steam is the dominant form of high technology. A steampunk workshop for teens at Third Place Commons 2010-03-15T21:31:00Z Perhaps having not read Mary Shelley, the scientists are near a breakthrough. Review: In ‘The Lazarus Effect,’ Young Scientists Play God 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” the Keats-Shelley Association of America hosts a live reading at the Library of Congress and encourages similar marathon “Frankenreads” around the world. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to a ‘Crazy Rich’ resurgence: The biggest book news of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Like every manmade monster from Mary Shelley onward, Dren is a creature of unfulfilled appetites; like parents everywhere, Clive and Elsa will try to prevent their child from tasting forbidden fruit and will fail. "Splice": Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley make a monster 2010-06-04T16:01:00Z Only I really want to invite Mary Shelley and her mom, Mary Wollstonecraft. Rebecca Solnit: By the Book 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z One of the themes of Mary Shelley's original novel is precisely how far the Creature can be seen as the double of Frankenstein himself: both are isolated, suffering; both are lonely. Frankenstein on stage: a case of double vision? 2011-02-17T14:48:11Z Its 1,115 pages offer his entertaining thoughts on politics, art, music, technology and literature, with cameos by Napoleon, Goya, Beethoven, Faraday, Mary Shelley and dozens of others. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Thus Mary Shelley, prefacing the revised 1831 edition of her Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z Claire’s daughter with Byron died at age 5, and only one of Mary Shelley’s four children with Percy survived. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z Q: Several writers and books came to mind while reading “The Accursed” — Edith Wharton, “Dracula,” Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” fairy tales of the dark persuasion, Stephen King, a Gilded Age version of Faust. From Woodrow Wilson to Twitter: A Q&A with Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-01T02:04:15Z “Frankenstein” took my breath away, but when I discovered Mary Shelley was 19 when she wrote it my head blew off. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Loves Antiheroines. Of Course. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Mary Shelley raved in her letters about the near-tropical color of the lake, “blue as the heavens which it reflects,” and used an array of scenes from Lake Geneva in “Frankenstein.” Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z In the Mary Shelley novel, Frankenstein is actually the last name of the monster’s creator. Spot is the $74,500 robot dog of our dystopian dreams 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley explored the existential agony of a manufactured being in the early 19th century. Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The production combines the work of Tennessee Williams and Mary Shelley to examine the relationship of Williams and his sister, Rose. Two Theater Companies Set to Nest in November 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z I’m a big fan of horror and suspense stories, so I’ve always wanted to read Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” the book that started it all. Tina Turner: By the Book 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z In “Outsiders,” Gordon tells the stories of five visionary women who disdained convention and made literary history: Eliot, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf. Group Biographies Give Trailblazing Historical Women Their Due 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z And further back: Mary Shelley, whose “Frankenstein” marks a kind of Year Zero for industrialized modernity’s impact on literature. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z When showing a clip from the 1931 “Frankenstein” film, there are references to Mary Shelley, who wrote the original in 1817. BBC America’s ‘Real History’ is Science Fiction 101 2014-04-16T20:07:37Z We’d also have the whole house from Switzerland that the Shelleys and Lord Byron were hanging out in when Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein during the year without a summer. Jay Baruchel's fantasy festival: deep-diving into The Crow with Ian Curtis and Oreos 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Charlotte Gordon, a professor of humanities at Endicott College, is the author, most recently, of “Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.” Review | In this brilliant biography, the author of ‘Frankenstein’ comes ALIVE! 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z My favorite novels of all time include: “Dracula,” by Bram Stoker; “Frankenstein,” by Mary Shelley; “Breakfast of Champions,” by Kurt Vonnegut; and the Harry Potter series. Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Not least, he regularly turns for insight to the era’s two most famous novels: Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Review | The volatile era that gave rise to Jane Austen and Lord Byron 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley, the author of that famous bit of early science fiction, was born in 1797. 'Sleepy Hollow' Recap: Ben Franklin Taps His Inner Frankenstein 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Our enduring images of Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula arguably owe more to their 1930s screen portrayals by Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi than to their creators, Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker. From The Wizard of Oz to Top Hat – why the 1930s is my favourite film decade 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Crichton also works in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and ties their themes of creation, control and chaos throughout. Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z Jane Austen and Mary Shelley wrote novels about manners and monsters respectively, while Byron pumped out poetry. George IV: the rehabilitation of Old Naughty 2011-08-28T20:00:05Z I have to cheat just a bit, and invite four: Edith Wharton, Mary Shelley, Bryan Stevenson and Herman Wouk. Katie Couric Likes Books on Paper, and Articles Onscreen 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z Mary Shelley beat him to the punch by 20 years. For Years, a Literary Villain Made Joe Ide Wary of Nurses 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Silva succeeds in making Wollstonecraft — the critic, novelist, translator, trailblazing feminist and the mother of Mary Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein” — a vibrant and forceful personality, full of both love and fury. Review | It can’t match ‘Wolf Hall,’ but ‘Love and Fury’ captures an English figure with bravura 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Are there plans to screen “Mary Shelley” there? A Pioneering Saudi Director on Her New Film, ‘Mary Shelley’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “The Frankenstein Code” A modern version of the Mary Shelley novel in which an old sheriff is brought back to life after a pair of scientists give him a new, stronger, more attractive body. Watch Trailers for Fox's New Fall Dramas and Comedies 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z British poet and academic Fiona Sampson’s new study “In Search of Mary Shelley,” focusing almost exclusively on her subject’s youth, belongs squarely in the second camp. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z George Eliot and Mary Shelley were, by far, the best women writers of the era. The curious US cult of Jane Austen 2013-01-28T01:12:48Z Co., is described as a visual journey through the layered universe of Mary Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein.” Abrons Arts Center’s Fall Season Celebrates Trailblazers 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Seymour is the author of many well-regarded biographies, including those of Mary Shelley, Robert Graves and Lord Byron’s wife and daughter. The Life of Jean Rhys, a Uniquely Brilliant and Thorny Writer 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Given that Mary Shelley's novel has been around since 1818 and subject to countless adaptations, I'd have thought it highly unusual for anyone to attend the production in a state of total innocence. Michael Billington on giving away the plot 2011-04-03T21:01:01Z Mary Shelley wrote in her preface to the novel. ‘Frankenstein’ Manuscript Comes to Life in New Publication 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z One begins in 1816, when the teenage Mary Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein,” was living in the Alps with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and others. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z More than 200 years have passed since that brilliant teenager Mary Shelley first galvanized her monster into life. Review | In ‘Frankissstein,’ Jeanette Winterson brings something zany and intellectual ALIVE! 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley’s 19th-century novel “Frankenstein” is often seen as a metaphor for a woman’s fear of childbirth and motherhood. Television: ... And Baby Makes Reality TV 2011-01-21T17:40:59Z When in 1831 Mary Shelley wished her "hideous progeny" well, dare we suppose she was bestowing a blessing of sorts on the legions of future imitators who would lead her creation off down other alleys? Frankenstein at the National Theatre 2011-02-12T00:05:26Z The menace that Mr. Gogos brought to his portrait of Bela Lugosi’s Dracula is absent from his vision of the monster first imagined by Mary Shelley. Basil Gogos, Who Painted Monsters With Love, Dies at 88 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The writer Dave Morris has collaborated with Inkle, a software and design studio, to produce a touchscreen-friendly adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel. Frankenstein by Dave Morris ? review 2012-05-17T08:00:02Z Among them: an original Magna Carta, a first edition Pride And Prejudice, Mary Shelley’s handwritten manuscript for Frankenstein, and fragments of an ancient papyrus manuscript possibly in the hand of Sappho. Conceptual, Sensual, Degenerate: Your Summer Art Choices 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z The film is written by Kaufman, and jointly directed by him and Duke Johnson, a specialist in stop-motion animation best known for the spoof series Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole on the Adult Swim channel. Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The production he will be appearing in is “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” based on her 1818 novel. Robert Fairchild: From God to Monster (and Choreographer) 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z Mary Shelley It's been a while since Shared Experience, writer Helen Edmundson and director Polly Teale have come up with one of their award-winning shows, usually focused on a woman – fictional or real – in literature. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-06-08T23:05:29Z In the ’60s, orderlies jokingly refer to mad scientist Friedrich as “Dr. Frankenstein,” and the name of his ghoulish project alludes to “The Modern Prometheus,” the subtitle of Mary Shelley’s monsterpiece. How Do You Illustrate Anguish? With Rage or Silence? 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z First was Ide’s comment that, while Edgar Allan Poe is often heralded as the “originator of both horror and science fiction,” it was Mary Shelley who got there first. Kink, Frankenstein and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Tales of the Golem in medieval European Jewish folklore foreshadowed if not inspired Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” probably the first modern science fiction novel. Science Fiction, ‘The Decameron’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Others have argued that Mary Shelley lied about the authorship of Frankenstein, but few have accused her of multiple murders. A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd – review 2013-03-01T17:50:01Z Away from Shakespeare, though, he has had mixed fortunes, typified by the drubbing he received for his unsuccessful 1994 film of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Big Thor 2011-04-26T07:24:15Z Whether you want to try out the premium brand’s Q Spectacular Tonic Water or use any old tonic water you have at home, here’s how you can pay tribute to Mary Shelley’s beloved behemoth. Horror movie inspired Halloween cocktails to get into the spooky spirit 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z He’s no less indebted to literature: his fondness for Gothic fiction like Mary Shelley’s “Last Man” and Richard Jefferies’s “After London” comes across in the after-the-fall ambience of some of his films. Ben Rivers’s ‘Two Years at Sea’ and ‘Slow Action’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z It’s unlikely that Mary Shelley intended Victor Frankenstein’s creature to be interpreted as his creator’s sex toy. Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights and Britain Becomes Modern 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Also, it was a little bit of rebellion — I wanted to bring the Creature back to Mary Shelley because it has been so badly used over the years in movies. ‘We Feel a Kinship With the Creature’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In the play “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” by the Ensemble for the Romantic Century, which blends parts of Shelley’s classic horror story with her letters and diaries, Mr. Fairchild portrays Frankenstein’s monster and serves as choreographer. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Besides his comic book work, Mr. Wrightson did illustrations for horror magazines and novels, including several by Stephen King and Mary Shelley’s 1818 classic, “Frankenstein.” Bernie Wrightson, Artist and a Creator of Swamp Thing, Dies at 68 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z “The Broken Nine” for the Met were inspired in part by Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” which he read during quarantine with his family in Bridgehampton, N.Y., and also by the religious figures in Peruvian paintings. In Rashid Johnson’s Mosaics, Broken Lives Pieced Together 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z His next horror project is a remake of Mary Shelley’s classic Frankenstein. What Scares the People Who Scare Us? 2011-10-31T15:37:35Z His classes have combined augmented reality with Edgar Allan Poe, virtual reality with Sherlock Holmes and machine learning with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. An Art Professor Says A.I. Is the Future. It’s the Students Who Need Convincing 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Gordon links five visionaries who made literary history — George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf — through their shared understanding of death and violence. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The Slumdog Millionaire director will tackle Nick Dear's play, based on the novel by Mary Shelley, as part of the London theatre's winter season. 2010-01-21T12:00:00Z Nor is she the first commentator to have become fascinated by Mary Shelley's indomitable daughter-in-law, Jane. A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd – review 2013-03-01T17:50:01Z Book-It stages Mary Shelley’s famous horror story about an obsessed young scientist and the monster he creates. The Week Ahead: Rosanne Cash, Mozart and ‘Trees’ 2014-02-19T22:52:15Z Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The heavenly and the hellish aspects of the Alps both feature. Ten of the best: Alps 2010-12-18T00:07:19Z He sees “She Who Wrote” — which assembles objects from nine institutions around the world — as part of the Morgan’s long history of exhibitions on women writers like Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë and Emily Dickinson. In Search of Enheduanna, History’s First Named Author 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Only then can one be truly inspired by Mary Shelley’s genius and her bravery. Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ comes fully alive in this new edition 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z His turf is the bloody, romantic realm of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and the ballet “Giselle,” with their fascination for dark, supernatural forces and the entwining of love, fear and death. ‘Sleepy Hollow’s’ Headless Horseman: Spring dance leaps out of ballet’s box 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z He was famously present when Mary Shelley conceived of “Frankenstein,” with its prospect of a man-made machine that might develop its own thoughts. Walter Isaacson’s ‘The Innovators’ Studies Computer Wizards 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z But Byron’s Swiss chateau is nonetheless where the seed of “Frankenstein” is planted, and “Mary Shelley” is as much a biography of that book as of its author. Review: ‘Mary Shelley’ Twists Pain and Passion Into a Monster 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The novel opens at the end of Wollstonecraft’s life, as she is about to give birth to the infant who will become Mary Shelley. Review | It can’t match ‘Wolf Hall,’ but ‘Love and Fury’ captures an English figure with bravura 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Similarly, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” can be read as a study of racist or colonialist attitudes toward the “other,” as well as an early vision of a possible machine-flesh hybrid. Perspective | The Loch Ness monster may not exist, but such mythical beasts fascinate for good reason 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z These riffs on classics by Mary Shelley and Anton Chekhov, part of the Performance Space 122's Coil Festival of experimental theater, are both by Brooklyn troupes with their own defiantly scrawled signatures. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Defying Expectations Off Broadway 2013-01-24T17:37:58Z In 1831, nine years after her husband’s death, Mary Shelley wrote the introduction to a revised version of “Frankenstein.” Review: In ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ a Monster to Love 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Bravo for the review of this humorous and harrowing take on Mary Shelley's classic. In ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad,’ a Fantastical Manifestation of War’s Cruelties 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z First in childbirth, bringing the author Mary Shelley into the world – the agonising post-partum infection took 10 days to finish her off. The original Suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Creation in the flesh—isn’t that what we’ve always sought, from Mary Shelley to Wells to the discoverers of the new gene-editing technology? This Week in Fiction: T. Coraghessan Boyle on the Perils of Genetic Manipulation 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z How was working on “Mary Shelley” different from directing films in the Middle East? A Pioneering Saudi Director on Her New Film, ‘Mary Shelley’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z In 2019 it was announced he was working on a supernatural detective series called "The Shelley Society," surrounding a young Mary Shelley, for HBO Max, though it's unknown what stage of development that's in. "True Blood" reboot planned from "Sabrina" showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Beginning 250 years ago, with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764, the exhibition will examine how that book influenced the likes of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe and Bram Stoker. British Library announces new season 2014-01-22T18:42:34Z Sombre news for fans of Mary Shelley who have the misfortune to be under 15 years old. Teenagers won't be shocked by a naked man on the stage 2011-02-27T00:06:05Z While the stylistic similarity between the other literary families analyzed might be attributed to collaboration, Mary Shelley never knew her mother as she died 10 days after Mary was born. The Brontës, Shelleys & Kingsley and Martin Amis: Research suggests relatives share writing styles 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Now, in time for the 200th anniversary of “Frankenstein,” comes another biography, “In Search of Mary Shelley,” by the British poet Fiona Sampson. The Woman Who Created a Monster 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z What you get in Danny Boyle's production and Nick Dear's adaptation of Mary Shelley's mythic fable, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating as Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, is neither shlock nor satire. Frankenstein - review 2011-02-24T00:46:25Z We did an animation with the Bram Stoker letters, and had Alaska reading Mary Shelley's letters. Why the Final Girl and horror have always felt queer: "We've got to find our way to survive" 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Among them: “Little Women,” on the occasion of its 150th anniversary; “Anne of Green Gables”; Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”; and Daphne du Maurier’s forever-young “Rebecca.” Seattle Times arts critic Moira Macdonald begins a new chapter 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z The model worked so well that the next book club — discussing Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” — immediately followed. Madrona’s Paper Portal Used Books offers big literary conversations 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z It’s probably not what Mary Shelley would have done, either. Using augmented reality and novel-like storytelling, L.A. designers want to upend the board game 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Scientific malfeasance driven by hubris and leading to runaway trouble, on the other hand, is a much simpler story that goes back at least to Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, “Frankenstein.” The Ongoing Mystery of Covid’s Origin 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Despite, or perhaps because of, having endured a miscarriage, our narrator writes, “I was still trying to write my novel about Mary Shelley.” A new novel distills a horror as old as "Frankenstein" and as fresh as Dobbs: Childbearing 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z On a stormy night in 1816, Mary Shelley had a terrifying dream about a corpse coming to life—a nightmare that inspired her to write Frankenstein. ‘Dream glove’ boosts creativity during sleep 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z I also think Mary Shelley might have been autistic. How autistic comedian Fern Brady made it in the comedy world 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z But Lowenstein maintains that the genre’s mommy issues began with a woman, and long before film: Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 horror novel, “Frankenstein,” is often considered to be the inception of modern horror. From ‘Psycho’ to a new crop of horror movies, the genre has some mommy issues 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z In Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, she provided a glimpse into the monster’s mind by listing the books read by this literary forebear to artificial intelligence. Three Easy Ways to Make AI Chatbots Safer 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z “Clarissa” was quickly translated into several other languages, including French, German and Dutch; Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein,” read the book in both English and Italian while living in Italy between 1818 and 1822. TikTok inspired me to tackle a nearly 1,500-page literary classic 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z As Manual Cinema comes to Seattle, it’s bringing a nuanced retelling of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” in a way you’re unlikely to catch anywhere else. Manual Cinema stitches together ‘Frankenstein’ for Seattle’s Moore Theatre 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z The golem also served as an inspiration for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Can religion save us from Artificial Intelligence? 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z “What Mary Shelley shows us is what a bad idea this really is, and how male hubris really does monstrous things with motherhood.” From ‘Psycho’ to a new crop of horror movies, the genre has some mommy issues 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Perfecting that blend — "great story" and "scientifically satisfying" — has bedeviled sci-fi writers since Mary Shelley invented the genre with the 1818 novel "Frankenstein." How this laughable sci-fi flick embarrassed Hollywood into doing better science 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Polidori wrote what would be heralded as the first modern vampire tale, called simply “The Vampyre,” and Mary Shelley, of course, began churning out a masterpiece called “Frankenstein.” Review | Rachel Hawkins gives the Gothic suspense novel a witty update in ‘The Villa’ 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z “We actually ended up making a two-hour show because there was so much material that we wanted to include with the Mary Shelley backstory,” Miller said. Manual Cinema stitches together ‘Frankenstein’ for Seattle’s Moore Theatre 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Mary Shelley, who wrote “Frankenstein,” also spent time in the park, where her mother, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, was buried before her remains were relocated. The Hardy Tree, a Beloved Fixture of a London Cemetery, Topples Over 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Shouldn’t we have discovered more Austens and Brontës — or even another writer as singular as Mary Shelley — among these pioneering hundreds by now? Review | To find great female novelists, stop looking in Jane Austen’s shadow 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and such public domain novels as Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and Jane Austen’s “Persuasion.” Spotify launches audiobook store with some 300,000 titles 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The previous record was set in September when a first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein sold for $1.17m. Tiny manuscript by Charlotte Brontë returns home to Haworth 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Her discussion swings through a dazzling range of subjects, including Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” Darwin’s theories on evolution, feminist criticism that anticipates the work of Hélène Cixous and, most disturbingly, her own amputated leg. Review | ‘Thrust’ delivers a mind-blowing critique of America’s ideals 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Dowd contrasts Trump to the monster in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," who begins with "elegance of mind and sweetness of temperament, reading Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' and gathering firewood for a poor family." Yes, Donald Trump is an "American monster": But he wasn't built by a mad scientist 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The previous record was set just last year when a first edition of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' sold for $1.17m in September. For sale: Tiny book by Charlotte Brontë, at $1.25m 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley, wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, wrote one of the earliest and most successful Gothic horror novels, Frankenstein. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Find out in director James Whale’s 1931 classic based on Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel. Classic movies in SoCal: ‘Pan’s Labyrinth,’ ‘Phantasm,’ ‘Psycho’ and more 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z For this, they have followed Mary Shelley with another eccentric fantasist of yore, Charles Morton. Review: Opera in a Santa Monica shipping container? 'Birds in the Moon' makes it magical 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The House Jan. 6 committee's first prime-time hearing, she writes, played out as "a horror story with predatory Proud Boys and a monster at its center that even Mary Shelley could have appreciated": Yes, Donald Trump is an "American monster": But he wasn't built by a mad scientist 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z That included Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and Ana Lily Amirpour’s “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,” a film that fused Iranian and Western themes into a story about vampires. New cuts show that SFMOMA seems hellbent on being boring and corporate 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z She died aged 38 following the birth of her daughter, the author Mary Shelley. Mary Wollstonecraft statue: Maggi Hambling takes aim at critics 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z To borrow the subtitle from Mary Shelley’s famous novel, Marjorie Taylor Greene is the fruit of Republicans’ own efforts to become the Modern Prometheus. Opinion | Kevin McCarthy, meet Dr. Frankenstein 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z In 1910, the first filmed adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein,” a silent short produced by Thomas Edison’s New York movie studio, was released. Today in History 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z The author died aged 38 after the birth of her daughter, the writer Mary Shelley. Sculpture celebrating Mary Wollstonecraft draws criticism 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z She died aged 38 while giving birth to her daughter, the author Mary Shelley. Mary Wollstonecraft: Statue to 'mother of feminism' unveiled 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Mary Shelley Smith's been serving up food to bands and punters at festivals, including BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, Reading, Glastonbury and the Isle of Wight, for about 30 years. Festival staff 'devastated' by summer of cancellations 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Keats’s first book of poetry was published when he was 21; Mary Shelley was 18 when she started writing Frankenstein. Four-year-old lands book deal for his 'astonishing' poetry 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Guided by heroes including the environmental activist Wangari Maathai and Mary Shelley, the three must play their way home in order to save their future. Children’s books roundup – the best new picture books and novels 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z The author’s postcolonial spin on the gothic tradition evokes the usual suspects: Daphne du Maurier, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley, even Anne Radcliffe. The twisted evil of eugenics made real in the novel 'Mexican Gothic' 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z My Own Version of You is Mary Shelley recast as Edgar Allan Poe in a creepy midnight graveyard somewhere down south. 'A billboard with 50 years of layers': readers on Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z The story of “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley is, in many ways, the story of a brilliant but haunted woman who lost her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, from complications of Mary’s birth. Dads, kids and life’s curve balls: Here are 6 books to consider for Father’s Day 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z It’s a great time to read the original speculative novel, Mary Shelley’s “The Last Man.” Dystopian fiction has always been real for Ray Bradbury prize winner Marlon James 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Parents, teachers and kids can choose from electronic editions of beloved stories such as Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” Ann McGovern’s “Stone Soup,” Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild” and Charlotte Brontë's “Jane Eyre.” Bored and on a budget? Here's how to read for free while social distancing 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Fantastical tales inspired by science and technology went back to the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in 1818, which speculated about the use of a revolutionary new energy source, electricity, to reanimate life. Isaac Asimov, the candy store kid who dreamed up robots 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z The action that follows, with its Gothic overtones and dire implications, carries on in the bold tradition of Mary Shelley’s classic. Review: A Hollywood Gothic in the land of the influencers 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The idea that Four Larks, the self-described junkyard opera company, would adapt Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” seemed predestined. 'This is the ultimate creature': How 'Frankenstein' comes alive in Beverly Hills 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Four Larks blends physical theater, live music and experiential design in this new work inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic novel about a mad doctor and his monstrous creation. Eight things to do in L.A. and O.C., including Valentine's Day shows 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Frankenstein Four Larks mixes physical theater, live music and experiential design in this new work inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic novel about a mad doctor and his monstrous creation. Theater in L.A. this week: 'Revenge Song: A Vampire Cowboys Creation' and more 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z The Philosophical Research Society launches a new lecture series, “Human Being/Being Human in the Digital Age,” on Tuesday with a discussion of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Kick off the new year with these L.A. book talks 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The origin of modern feminism is in Romantics like Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Mary Shelley’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, the first great beacon of modern feminism. Critic Curtis White: Capitalism needs workers who are "stupid-smart" 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z I’m recommending two books: “The Long Take” by Robin Robertson and “Frankissstein” by Jeanette Winterson, a clever, funny love story about artificial intelligence, sexual identity and the ghost of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Best books of 2019: What Ronan Farrow, Susan Orlean and more writers we love couldn’t put down 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The horror classic “Frankenstein” celebrated its 200th anniversary last year — and its author, Mary Shelley, was still in her teens when she began writing it. Take a break from turkey and stuffing to dig into these 6 paperback titles 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z While the castle’s name reminds some of English novelist Mary Shelley’s 19th-century book about the man who creates a monster, historians are skeptical that it actually inspired the author. Germans flock to Frankenstein Castle for spooky Halloween 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z One goes back to the source, fully imagining Mary Shelley as she creates her famous novel, begun during a legendary holiday with husband Percy Shelley and their friend Lord Byron. 'Frankissstein' author Jeanette Winterson gives new life to the monster 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Frankenstein Boris Karloff plays the mad doctor’s monster in James Whale’s 1931 thriller based on the Mary Shelley novel. Classic movies in L.A. this week: 'Ghostbusters' and more 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z But like Mary Shelley's Dr Frankenstein, he had created something beyond his control. Can a computer fool you into thinking it is human? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Boris Karloff caused a sensation and became an overnight star in James Whale’s 1931 “Frankenstein” because actor and director, with powerful sensitivity, revealed the humanity in Mary Shelley’s inarticulate, tormented creature. Calendar Feedback: Valerie Harper was everyone’s friend 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The titular scientist tries to play God, with catastrophic results, in Nick Dear’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel. 7 weekend picks including Barry Manilow at the Hollywood Bowl 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Frankenstein’s monster has been part of our culture for more than 200 years — Mary Shelley’s book was published in 1818. 'Frankissstein' author Jeanette Winterson gives new life to the monster 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Playwright Nick Dear‘s 2011 adaption “rescues Mary Shelley‘s creation from the stereotypes of innumerable grunting, lumbering movie monsters,” writes contributor Philip Brandes, with a monster that quotes Milton. Essential Arts: The impenetrable Music Center gets an accessible new look 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Instead, the young Shelley Marie -- her name a play on “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley -- is a celebration of the individual, and an acknowledgment from the happily-ever-after factory that “normal” isn’t one size fits all. Disney is about to introduce a new anti-princess. Meet Shelley Marie 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z If, as Brandes says, A Noise Within’s play “illuminates” Mary Shelley’s vision, it is not because it rescues her work from the first “Frankenstein” films but because it carries on the tradition they started. Calendar Feedback: Valerie Harper was everyone’s friend 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z A month later, after a diversion to Paris, he returned to New York with a new book he had been given: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Subversive, queer and terrifyingly relevant: six reasons why Moby-Dick is the novel for our times 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Yet it’s also about how we read, and why we return to stories like the one Mary Shelley published 201 years ago. 'Frankissstein' author Jeanette Winterson gives new life to the monster 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Lord Byron challenges his houseguests to write a ghost story, which leads Mary Shelley to begin her novel ``Frankenstein.’' TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 28 - Aug. 3, 2019 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z In 1849, Melville went to London, to negotiate book contracts, and to buy books, including Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”—which ends with a mad, oceangoing pursuit. Herman Melville at Home 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z “Stranger Things’ ” David Harbour meets Mary Shelley’s famous creation in the new mockumentary “Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein.” What’s on TV, July 14-20: Gina Torres in ‘Pearson,’ the moon landing, the bio-pic ‘Stan & Ollie’ and more 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z The novel looks back 200 years to Mary Shelley and the industrial revolution and takes us into the present day revolution of artificial intelligence, sexbots and cryogenics. Jeanette Winterson: ‘I can see why I’ve annoyed people over the years. But that’s who I am' 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Kerschen’s revived Keats becomes a part of Percy and Mary Shelley’s circle of expats, gets reacquainted with his medical roots and befriends some student revolutionaries. What if John Keats had lived past 25? Paul Kerschen’s ‘The Warm South’ revives the poet 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The modern text is Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein,” but her monster turns into a murderer, and I think it's more complicated — the changes bring both benefits and brand new problems. Q&A: Ian McEwan on how ‘Machines Like Me’ reveals the dark side of artificial intelligence 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The closest analogue is the monster of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” who, before Hollywood’s smear campaign, was a Romantic inspired by the virtuous deeds recounted in Plutarch. Man, Woman, and Robot in Ian McEwan’s New Novel 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z In this sense, you might say, he is coming at the AI question from the opposite angle to Mary Shelley in Frankenstein. Ian McEwan: ‘Who’s going to write the algorithm for the little white lie?’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Williams, meanwhile, has been seen in Mary Shelley and appeared in a few episodes of Doctor Who in 2015. The breakout stars of Game of Thrones 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z As everyone today knows, Mary Shelley’s gothic novel features a man using science to give life to inanimate flesh. What if John Keats had lived past 25? Paul Kerschen’s ‘The Warm South’ revives the poet 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z In 1818, Mary Shelley created popular culture’s first and most enduring monster in “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.” Movie monster maker Milicent Patrick finally gets her due in ‘The Lady From the Black Lagoon’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z In response to that challenge, 18-year-old Mary Shelley conceived of the world’s most famous monster. Perspective | The 23 most unforgettable last sentences in fiction 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Drunk History Rich Fulcher narrates the season premiere, which features a retelling of how Mary Shelley created “Frankenstein” and a full-episode parody of the kids’ series “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” Tuesday's TV highlights: 'The Conners' on ABC 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Most ubiquitous name: It was a very Mary year for movie titles, with 2018 bringing “Proud Mary,” “Mary and the Witches’ Flower,” “Mary Shelley,” “Mary Queen of Scots” and “Mary Poppins Returns.” Dubious Achievements: the best, worst and slyest from movies in 2018 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The long list of inventions and great works said to have been generated in dreams includes the periodic table, the sewing machine, Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” Paul McCartney’s “Let It Be,” and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z It was used as the frontispiece of A New Spirit of the Age, an 1844 book of essays on the cultural stars of the day including Tennyson, Browning and Mary Shelley. Lost portrait of Charles Dickens turns up at auction in South Africa 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “Frankenstein” was published 200 years ago, in 1818, when author Mary Shelley was just 20. It's alive! A live reading of 'Frankenstein' is streaming now for Halloween - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Voters also went big for sci-fi and fantasy both past and present, with representatives including Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and George R.R. Rowling, Tolkien, Austen novels vie for bragging rights 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z A “problematic miracle man” is the protagonist of this arch novel, which updates Mary Shelley’s monster with today’s biotechnological wonders. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Creature feature: The new documentary “The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein” marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s man-makes-monster tale. TV This Week, Oct. 21-27: 'The Simpsons,' 'Legacies' and more - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z In 1818, the publication of a Gothic horror novel by a 20-year old named Mary Shelley established the template for nearly every spooky movie monster unleashed by a mad scientist. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller take on 'Frankenstein.' But who's the better monster? - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z IN 1787, Mary Wollstonecraft, later to become the mother of the writer Mary Shelley — and therefore, in a way, the grandmother of Frankenstein — moved to 15 Henrietta Street, Dublin. This Dublin Block Tells the Story of the City 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z In Mary Shelley’s epic tale, Victor Frankenstein laments the monster he created. Scientists thought they had created the perfect tree. But it became a nightmare. 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z We might be tempted to call these “frankenalgos” – though Mary Shelley couldn’t have made this up. Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z One presentation copy to pass through Mr Harrington's shop was a Frankenstein signed by Mary Shelley to Lord Byron, who was famously part of the party where she first created the story. How much are signed books worth? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Read biographies of Mary Shelley and meet a woman whose relatively brief years encompassed great literary achievement, passionate romance, adventurous spirit and heartbreaking tragedy. ‘Mary Shelley’ review: Film fails to capture the passionate, creative spark of ‘Frankenstein’ author 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z For Vanity Fair, Rebecca Keegan profiled Al-Mansour, the Saudi Arabian filmmaker living in the United States and making her English language debut with "Mary Shelley." Indie Focus: Inventing the self in 'Mary Shelley,' 'The Gospel According To André' and 'Sollers Point' 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z “Mary Shelley” conjures up images of a lumbering, disfigured, greenish-skinned monster of a man. Radical author 'Mary Shelley' and an excellent Elle Fanning deserve a more adventurous telling 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Highlighted works include Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," "Godzilla," "Jurassic Park" and "Stranger Things." Monday's TV highlights: 'Running Wild With Bear Grylls' on NBC 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z This season, Genius: Picasso turns to the arts—and in 2019, the third season of Genius will tell the story of Mary Shelley, the legendary author of Frankenstein. Here's How to Watch or Stream 'Genius: Picasso' 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z But watch the new movie “Mary Shelley,” with Elle Fanning in the title role, and you won’t get too much of any of this. ‘Mary Shelley’ review: Film fails to capture the passionate, creative spark of ‘Frankenstein’ author 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley I missed this last week, but I still wanted to include it: it’s about Frankenstein creator Mary Shelley, played here by Elle Fanning. 7 new trailers you should watch this week 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z But where “Mary Shelley” falters is in its lack of focus and gratuitous need to overexplain everything. Radical author 'Mary Shelley' and an excellent Elle Fanning deserve a more adventurous telling 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z In the summer of 1816, we visited Switzerland, and became neighbours of Lord Byron,” Mary Shelley wrote in her introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein. Frozen with fear: a photographic journey into the icy landscape of Frankenstein 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Here's hoping "Game of Thrones' " Sean Bean keeps his head about him as he investigates murders most foul in 19th-century London in "The Frankenstein Chronicles," an imported mystery drama inspired by Mary Shelley's Gothic novel. TV This Week, Feb. 18-24: The BAFTAs, 'The Last Rhino' and more 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Mary’s life is recounted with insight and empathy by Fiona Sampson’s “In Search of Mary Shelley”, the most engaging of a clutch of books published to mark the novel’s bicentenary. Frankenstein: the monster that never dies 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Mary Shelley brought together all three strands—the cursed, the scientific, the romantic—when Frankenstein’s monster confronted its creator on one of the mountain’s glaciers. Winter sports face a double threat, from climate and demographic change 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The film celebrates Mary Shelley for the trailblazing woman that she is, but hews far too close to convention to truly represent her life. Radical author 'Mary Shelley' and an excellent Elle Fanning deserve a more adventurous telling 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley would later write the gothic classic, Frankenstein. Corbyn's political hero: Mary Wollstonecraft 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The actor has come a long way since he got his start in films like “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” and “Notting Hill” in the ’90s. IMDb file: Hugh Bonneville, the squire of 'Downton Abbey,' has a rich TV and film career, including the 'Paddington' movies 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z In Mary Shelley's novel, the monster gets angry at his creator, Victor Frankenstein, for having spurned him. Could science destroy the world? These scholars want to save us from a modern-day Frankenstein 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein,” was far from the most famous writer around that fire; she was, at the time, 19-year-old Mary Godwin, daughter of the early feminist and writer Mary Wollstonecraft. ‘Frankenstein’ turns 200: Mary Shelley’s horror story was published this month in 1818 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z In conceiving her story, Mary Shelley was influenced by the nascent medical science of the day and by early experiments on electricity. The specter of Frankenstein still haunts science 200 years later 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z About 20 years later, a young Mary Shelley answered a dare to write a ghost story, which she shared at a small gathering at Lake Geneva. As Frankenstein Turns 200, Can We Control Our Modern "Monsters"? 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Next year is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” he noted: “I think that story is relevant to what we’re talking about.” Tiny Human Brain Organoids Implanted in Rodents 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Mary Shelley never soars the way the film so clearly wants to, though. Mary Shelley is a gothic romance that can’t be raised from the dead 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s not entirely clear exactly what, other than that dark night, inspired young Mary Shelley to create a tale of a living monster created as a grotesque scientific experiment by young Victor Frankenstein. ‘Frankenstein’ turns 200: Mary Shelley’s horror story was published this month in 1818 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Along with miniature masterworks by the likes of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells and Ambrose Bierce are unexpected gems. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z It was written by Mary Shelley in 1818 and tells the story of a scientist who creates the monster known as “Frankenstein.” $300K federal grant to pay for ‘Frankenstein’ themed events 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z His PhD thesis, which is recognised as an important contribution to the study of Romanticism, showed that the vegetarianism of Percy and Mary Shelley was intimately entwined with their politics and art. 'A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the Anthropocene 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It’s a beautifully shot film exploring a truly fascinating story, but Mary Shelley never really becomes as moving or as captivating as it should be. Mary Shelley is a gothic romance that can’t be raised from the dead 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Galvanism briefly fascinated the public, inspiring Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein. Battery bonanza: From frogs' legs to mobiles and electric cars - BBC News 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Yet few people today recall that Mary Shelley’s story begins and ends in the Arctic. Literature’s Arctic Obsession 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z But it is his textured visions for Mary Shelley’s masterwork that might stand as his most compelling epic achievement. Analysis | Bernie Wrightson, co-creator of Swamp Thing, elevated the art of horror in comics 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Whether the GOP will suffer the ruination and death that ultimately befell Mary Shelley’s monster is yet to be determined. How the alt-right became racist: A short history of hate — Part 1 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Mary Shelley shares a thematic focal point with some other films at this year’s festival: namely, the ways men marginalize women. Mary Shelley is a gothic romance that can’t be raised from the dead 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Schor, a professor of English at Princeton, is the editor of “The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley.” A Language to Unite Humankind 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley attended, noting that “in the early performances all the ladies fainted and hubbub ensued!” Science fiction: The science that fed Frankenstein : Nature : Nature Research 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z They outline some of the deepest roots of the modern genre: Mary Shelley with Frankenstein, Jules Verne with his romantic adventures, and H.G. The Big Book of Science Fiction is 1,100 pages of sci-fi history 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The Tambora eruption also helped spark bicycles—and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 201 Years Ago, This Volcano Caused a Climate Catastrophe This latest look at a man and his monster honors and dishonors Mary Shelley's 1818 source novel and the umpteen big and small screen incarnations that have been sci-fi and horror mainstays for centuries. Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy can't prop up a soulless 'Victor Frankenstein' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Frankentein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a doctor who brings a creature to life, only to recoil at how hideous it is. 25 Books That Will Blow Your Mind, According to Amazon 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The third was radically revised by Mary Shelley alone, and was published in 1831, with a fascinating new introduction by her. Science fiction: The science that fed Frankenstein : Nature : Nature Research 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z For example, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, grows steadily in anger and fear over the course of the novel, with little change in other emotions save a big spike in sadness in the middle. Computers can get an ‘emotional feel’ for fiction 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z James McAvoy stars, with Daniel Radcliffe as Igor, in this revamp of Mary Shelley's classic tale, in which the doctor's cutting-edge research into immortality goes too far, resulting in terrifying consequences. 'Spectre,' 'Star Wars,' 'Hateful 8' ... a guide to every holiday movie you need to see 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Like Doctor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley’s great novel, not only has our creation asserted its own agency, but it now wields its power over us. How humans are driving the sixth mass extinction 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z In the case of "Edward Scissorhands," McMahon says Burton succeeded in rendering a "highly sympathetic portrayal of a monster," much like Mary Shelley did with "Frankenstein." Edward Scissorhands at 25 stands the test of time 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z In the intervening period of composition, back in England, Mary Shelley's journal reveals an impressive reading list. Science fiction: The science that fed Frankenstein : Nature : Nature Research 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z To the outsider, the experiments looked more Mary Shelley than cutting-edge neurology. The secretive government agency where ‘anything imagined can be tried’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Golems are commonly pictured as shambling, half-human creatures - a tradition that was developed further by Mary Shelley in her novel Frankenstein, published in 1818, where the artificial human being is a tragic figure. A Point of View: Is it ever right to try to create a superior human being? - BBC News 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley, then 18, was part of a literary coterie that included Percy Shelley, her future husband, as well as Lord Byron. How a Volcanic Eruption in 1815 Darkened the World but Colored the Arts 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, lived above my local paper shop, or rather in a building on the same site, with Percy Shelley. Leave London? Never – I’ll be staying, and fighting for it 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z That is the enduring youthful genius and imaginative generosity of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Science fiction: The science that fed Frankenstein : Nature : Nature Research 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The network also showed off the first trailer for The Frankenstein Code today — a TV re-imagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Watch Neil Gaiman's Lucifer display his devilish charm in Fox's first trailer 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley tend to dominate the craft. The Dark Origins of 11 Classic Nursery Rhymes 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z In this moody atmosphere, Mary Shelley came up with her lurid tale of Frankenstein, which she published two years later. How a Volcanic Eruption in 1815 Darkened the World but Colored the Arts 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z One such demonstration, at London’s Royal College of Surgeons, may have inspired Mary Shelley’s invention of Frankenstein’s monster. Zap Your Brain 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z And then really just finding my own voice for the character, which is not as eloquent as Mary Shelley, but a little bit more conversational than the Karloff Frankenstein. Hellboy creator Mike Mignola is reinventing Frankenstein 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z But to some people, the very idea of transferring genes between species conjures up mad scientists running amok — and so, two centuries after Mary Shelley wrote “Frankenstein,” they talk about Frankenfood. Why science is so hard to believe 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z After all, it was during their European travels, while staying in Geneva with the poet Lord Byron, that Mary Shelley dreamed up Frankenstein in response to a ghost-story competition among the literary group. Did a Real-Life Alchemist Inspire 'Frankenstein'? 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Ask anyone about gothic literature and they are likely to reference Bram Stoker's Dracula or Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as early examples. The creepy tale that launched gothic fiction 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Said to have inspired Mary Shelley's classic Gothic novel, the location, situated on a hilltop in Odenwald, positively drips with popular lore and legends. Everything to do, see, and read this weekend 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Some, like Mary Shelby, evoke the names of actual writers, like Mary Shelley, the English author of “Frankenstein.” A Human Pulp-Fiction Factory Becomes a Cult Hero 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z As Mary Shelley wrote in Frankenstein: “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” How To Lead Breakthrough Change At Work 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Although historians of literature nod to Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, Wells is considered the father of the modern genre, with War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. Michael Dirda: A Science Fiction Reading List 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Authors like Mary Shelley raised fears that scientists would unleash forces beyond their control. Quit whining about the Facebook study. Life is better as a science experiment 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Vampire legends originally come from eastern Europe, while Frankenstein's monster was invented by Mary Shelley and horror stories about mummies are Victorian. The top 10 monsters in art 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The original Frankenstein was written by English novelist Mary Shelley in 1818. Baghdad Frankenstein book wins prize 2014-04-30T04:35:15Z Paul McCartney, Mary Shelley and Jack Nicklaus came up with “Yesterday,” Frankenstein and the perfect golf swing—respectively, of course—in a dream. Cheating is a Good Thing (Sometimes) 2014-03-10T15:26:16Z William Shakespeare, the ‘king of infinite space’: Was the Bard a science-fiction writer 200 years before Mary Shelley? Physics Week in Review: February 1, 2014 2014-02-01T10:31:29Z Almost 200 years after the book came out, many businesses face exactly the same dilemma as the doctor in Mary Shelley's literary masterpiece. The adverts that talk back 2013-11-08T00:21:01Z Emily Dickinson Mary Shelley Edith Sitwell "Rosebud" was the final word uttered by one of the central characters in which film? 7 questions on famous last words 2013-09-04T01:25:57Z It was a "wet, ungenial summer", as Mary Shelley recalled of the time she spent at a villa on Lake Geneva in 1816, "and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house". 40 consequences of 10 wet summers: what will a decade of rain do to us? 2013-06-22T08:00:00Z The dreams of Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein,” involved a pale student kneeling beside a corpse that was jerking back to life. Dreams reveal some of their secrets, but much remains undiscovered 2013-03-11T18:44:30Z On 22 February 1815, after a pregnancy dominated by illness, Mary Shelley gave birth to a girl, two months prematurely. Why letters are the best legacy for family stories 2012-12-29T00:07:48Z Pundits speculated that scientists, like Mary Shelley’s Dr. Frankenstein, would shortly conjure up living organisms in their laboratories and thereby demonstrate in detail how genesis unfolded. Stanley Miller and the Quest to Understand Life's Beginning 2012-07-29T16:15:00.203Z In Mary Shelley's novel, Dr Frankenstein pursues the dream by reanimating bodily parts of the dead. Would you want to live forever? 2012-07-27T16:09:29Z Then, with extreme care, you wrap these little slivers of unformed muscle around Velcro "anchors" and, in a touch of pure Mary Shelley, you give them a jolt of electricity. Fake meat: is science fiction on the verge of becoming fact? 2012-06-22T21:59:00Z Their break-up coincided with his film of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a costly Gothic horror that was greeted with stinging reviews. Arise Sir Ken: Branagh profiled 2012-06-15T23:02:23Z One author who got him particularly hot under the wig was Mary Wollstonecraft, an English radical thinker and the future mother of Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein.” | Long Island: In a Long Island Library, an Exhibition on John Adams?s Books 2011-12-31T05:33:56Z The cup of such happiness as in this world was possible to Mary Shelley seemed now to be full, but the time was to be short during which she could taste it. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Mary Shelley never received any answer to her letter of protest, which, after Byron’s death, was found safe among his papers. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z Mary Shelley dreamed the two main scenes that became Frankenstein, and Robert Louis Stevenson did the same with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Answers in Your Dreams 2011-10-20T19:45:00.397Z “Mary Shelley wrote about moonlight shining through her window, and for 15 years I wondered if we could recreate that night,” said Donald Olson, a physics professor on the team, in a press release. Scientists Back Up Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein Moon' Claim 2011-10-03T11:05:00Z "But we see no reason, either in the science or in the primary sources, to doubt Mary Shelley's account." Scientist: Sky confirms "shining moon" behind Frankenstein 2011-09-26T22:41:35Z To live with Mary Shelley was indeed like entertaining an angel. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z And for four days past, though they had not known it, Mary Shelley and Jane Williams had been widows. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z In one of his half dozen novels, partly as a comment on sexism, he reimagined Mary Shelley’s classic on Frankenstein’s monster, making the narrator not Victor Frankenstein but his half-sister and fiancée. Theodore Roszak, ?60s Expert, Dies at 77 2011-07-13T03:31:26Z Case in point: Mary Shelley's account of where she got the idea for Frankenstein has long been disputed by literary scholars. Scientists Back Up Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein Moon' Claim 2011-10-03T11:05:00Z "Mary Shelley wrote about moonlight shining through her window, and now we have recreated that night," Olson said. Scientist: Sky confirms "shining moon" behind Frankenstein 2011-09-26T22:41:35Z Mary Shelley’s strength was ebbing, her nervous ailments increased, and the result was a loss of power in one side. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z She is remembered as Mary Shelley, wife of the poet. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z Mary Shelley and Mrs. Hunt became as great friends as their husbands. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z However, Mary Shelley might finally have some vindication for her inspiration tale. Scientists Back Up Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein Moon' Claim 2011-10-03T11:05:00Z Since Mary Shelley wrote her novel 200 years ago, it has variously been interpreted as a comment on, among other things, slavery, race and post-natal depression. Readers' new meanings for Frankenstein 2011-03-21T13:54:18Z This indeed was the Holy Land of Mary Shelley’s pilgrimage. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z “Ned” was something of an artist, and Mary Shelley sat more than once to him for her portrait. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z More remarkable still, Mary Shelley gave as willingly as her husband. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z It's the latest take on Mary Shelley's famous Gothic novel. 10 meanings of Frankenstein 2011-03-14T11:25:12Z That's still pretty much what I believe Mary Shelley was aiming at in this most excellent Gothic novel. Readers' new meanings for Frankenstein 2011-03-21T13:54:18Z For many and good reasons there could be little real sympathy between Hogg and Mary Shelley. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Yet it remains, as Mary Shelley intended, basically a work of philosophy, pathos and moral seriousness. Frankenstein: reviews round-up 2011-02-24T10:54:58Z Nick Dear began working on Frankenstein 20 years ago Mary Shelley began writing the story of Frankenstein when she was just 18 years old. Monster's voice 2011-02-18T00:03:05Z Frankenstein author Mary Shelley lived at number 24, while poet and critic Matthew Arnold lived at number 2. Britain's most expensive address feels the pinch as house prices tumble 2010-11-19T19:13:00Z However, by linking the Monster's life to that of Walton, Mary Shelley is able to show the fundamental influences that dictates our behaviour. Readers' new meanings for Frankenstein 2011-03-21T13:54:18Z Every reader of the present biography must see too that in Mary Shelley’s case physical causes had much to do with the limit of her intellectual achievements. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z On a pleasant evening in late summer the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife, Mary Shelley, were walking near the city of Leghorn in Italy. Eighth Reader "My hope is that if Mary Shelley popped into row G in the stalls she'd recognise what she wrote." Monster's voice 2011-02-18T00:03:05Z He became a journalist, and died at the early age of twenty-nine, after publishing a novel of some promise, Transfusion, steeped in the same romantic fancies which colour Mary Shelley's more famous Frankenstein. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle I am sure Mary Shelley was also attempting to show that her society created "monsters" which ultimately would lead to the destruction of the society itself. Readers' new meanings for Frankenstein 2011-03-21T13:54:18Z As an author Mary Shelley did not accomplish all that was expected of her. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z It was thirty years thereafter before I read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood When Mrs. Godwin was confined of her daughter, the late Mary Shelley, she was very ill; and my mother, then Mrs. Reveley, was constantly visiting her until her death, eight days after her confinement. Mary Wollstonecraft When death came to Robert's relief, her one ambition, like that of Mary Shelley, was to write her husband's name indelibly on history's page. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Mary Shelley was an intensely political writer and person and, along with her husband, was persecuted and hounded by the government. Readers' new meanings for Frankenstein 2011-03-21T13:54:18Z If, as Thackeray, perhaps justly, observes, “Persons, to succeed largely in this world, must assert themselves,” most assuredly Mary Shelley never tried that path to distinction.... The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z One of the big questions seems to be: Did Byron send Mary Shelley's letter to Mrs. R.B. Love Conquers All This volume prints for the first time the full text of Mary Shelley's novelette Mathilda together with the opening pages of its rough draft, The Fields of Fancy. Mathilda It is indeed remarkable that so young and inexperienced a writer as Mary Shelley, who was only nineteen when she wrote Frankenstein, should betray so slight a dependence on her predecessors. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Unlike her mother, Mary Shelley could do no great work alone. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women Twenty years later, when Mary Shelley had been twenty-seven years in her grave, there appeared a second edition of the book. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Throughout her long life, she lived in the memory of the love that had been hers; cherishing and protecting, idolizing, as did Mary Shelley, the one name and that alone. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors The text follows Mary Shelley's manuscript exactly except for the omission of mere corrections by the author, most of which are negligible; those that are significant are included and explained in the notes. Mathilda It was an argument between Byron and Shelley about Erasmus Darwin's theories that brought before Mary Shelley's sleepless eyes the vision of the monster miraculously infused by its creator with the spark of life. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance In Mary Shelley's own words:—'This is not the time to relate the truth; and I should reject any coloring of the truth.' The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 But Mary Shelley and Jane Williams had, both of them, to face facts and think of the future. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Then one evening Byron said, "we will each write a ghost story," and the proposition was agreed to, and Mary Shelley's contribution was developed till at length "Frankenstein" was written. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction The finished draft, Mathilda, still shows Mary Shelley's faults as a writer: verbosity, loose plotting, somewhat stereotyped and extravagant characterization. Mathilda Today, the names of science fiction's ancestral founders — Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, HG Wells — are still known, their work still a part of the discourse. Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books Excepting Mary Shelley, the best-informed spoke too soon after the event. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 Dear Mary Shelley—Pardon my tardiness in writing, which from day to day I have postponed, having no other cause to plead than idleness. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z It was "a wet, ungenial summer," according to the account Mary Shelley has left. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction In this story, as in all Mary Shelley's writing, there is much that is autobiographical: it would be hard to find a more self-revealing work. Mathilda In 1845 Mary Shelley visited Brighton for her health, her nerves having been much shaken by the anxiety she had gone through. Mrs. Shelley For Mary Shelley’s mythological dramas can at least claim to be the proper setting for some of the most beautiful lyrics of the poet, which so far have been read in undue isolation. Proserpine and Midas Mary Shelley applies to Sir Timothy for an increase of allowance—She is refused. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z On the other hand the following is Robert Dale Owen’s sketch of Mary Shelley. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Highly personal as the story was, Mary Shelley hoped that it would be published, evidently believing that the characters and the situations were sufficiently disguised. Mathilda Keats is again met, and Shelley calls on Mr. Baxter, who is not allowed by his son-in-law to say farewell to Mary Shelley: such a martinet may a Scotch schoolmaster be. Mrs. Shelley But in the year that followed these auspicious days, the strain and stress of her life proved more powerful on Mary Shelley than the inspiration of literature. Proserpine and Midas The idea of that might console me, at least you will see one that truly loves you, and who is for ever your affectionately attached Mary Shelley. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Jane and her children were the next to depart, and for a short time Mary Shelley and her boy were alone. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Mary Shelley's own understanding had been called masculine by Leigh Hunt in 1817 in the Examiner. Mathilda Yet Mary Shelley, in this as in most of her work, has great insight into character. Mrs. Shelley Altogether there is a curious contrast between the two aspects, hitherto revealed, of Mary Shelley’s literary activities. Proserpine and Midas So, dear Trelawny, you remember still poor Mary Shelley; thank you for your remembrance, and a thousand times for your kind letter. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z She responded warmly to the letter of her correspondent, who wrote back in almost rapturous terms— Frances Wright to Mary Shelley. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Mathilda offers a good example of Mary Shelley's methods of revision. Mathilda This highly imaginative work of Mary Shelley's twenty-sixth year contains some of the author's most powerful ideas; but is marred in the commencement by some of her most stilted writing. Mrs. Shelley A comparison of that fragment and the dramas here published seems to me to suggest the same conclusion, though in both cases Mary Shelley must have been helped by her husband. Proserpine and Midas Stories which lost nothing in the telling, wherein Jane Williams figured as a good angel, while Mary Shelley was made to appear in an unfavourable or even an absurd light. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z I am said to have a cold heart; there are feelings, however, so strongly implanted in my nature that, to root them out, life will go with it.—Most truly yours, Mary Shelley. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Mary Shelley’s diary, now she was alone, altered its character. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z We next pass to the life of Guarini, and missing Tasso, whose life Mary Shelley did not write, we come to Chiabrera, who tried to introduce the form of Greek poetry into Italian. Mrs. Shelley So much, no doubt, to the credit of Mary Shelley. Proserpine and Midas The same authoress asserts that neither when she recovered nor ever after was she in appearance the Mary Shelley of the past. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Adieu, I shall soon see you, and you will find how truly I am your affectionate Mary Shelley. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Give my love to “Very,” and so, dear, very patient, Adieu.—Yours affectionately, Mary Shelley. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z These letters to Trelawny give much insight into the present life of Mary Shelley, and refer to much of interest in her past. Mrs. Shelley I hope you are happy.—Yours, my dearest friend, ever, Mary Shelley. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Mary Shelley might still have chosen not to hear or not to notice, had she been allowed. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Mary Shelley shall be written on my tomb,—and why? The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z You belong to womenkind in general, and Mary Shelley will never be yours. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Adrian, the son of kings, the aristocratic republican, is the weakest part, and one cannot help being struck by Mary Shelley's preference for the aristocrat over the plebeian. Mrs. Shelley Mary Shelley's intimate acquaintance with Italy and Italians gives her the necessary knowledge to write on this subject. Mrs. Shelley Neither mentally nor physically had Mary Shelley the temperament of a revolutionary innovator. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z But we must now again retrace our steps, for in the father of Mary Shelley we have another of the representative people of his time, whose early life and antecedents must not be passed over. Mrs. Shelley Mary Shelley's novel of Lodore gives a good account of the sufferings of this time, as referred to later. Mrs. Shelley These Donne Estatiche first appear in Italy after the 12th century, and had continued to the time which Mary Shelley selected for her romance. Mrs. Shelley |
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