MARY SHELLEY'S BIOGRAPHY Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London in 1797 to radical philosopher, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Wollstonecraft died 11 days after giving birth, and young Mary was educated in the intellectual circles of her father's contemporaries. In 1814, at the age of seventeen, Mary met and fell in love with poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. She ran away with him to France and they were married …showed first 75 words of 3369 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3369 total…film with a happy ending. 1978: Berni Wrightson publishes a lavishly illustrated adaptation of "Frankenstein" that visually portrays the creature as originally described by Shelly. 1981: Elaborate effects cannot compensate for a bad script when an ill-conceived stage version of "Frankenstein" is mounted on Broadway. It starred John Carradine and closed after only one performance. 1994: The feminist undertones of the original novel are developed in "Mary Shelly's Frankenstein," a film starring Tom Hulce and Helena Bonham Carter.