Mary Shelley was only 21 years old when Frankenstein was first published in 1818. Young women were not expected to have careers at this time so she published the book anonymously, hoping that ...
At just 18 years old, Mary Shelley began crafting one of the most influential horror stories ever written, the 1818 novel “Frankenstein.” This work is heavily intertwined with the age of romanticism, ...
The book, she says ... in the Gulf of Spezia, 1822), Shelley’s second wife, Mary (the author of Frankenstein), was left penniless. For the sake of her small son, Percy Florence Shelley ...