Born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August 30, 1797, in London, England, Shelley was the daughter of two famous philosophers and writers: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote The ...

The only truly poetic act Percy Bysshe Shelley ever accomplished was saving his wife Mary from bleeding to death by packing her in ice while she was miscarrying. Otherwise, he was something of a wimp.

Elle Fanning stars in this uneven, "perfumed account" of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin's romance with poet Percy Shelley, and the fateful weekend... Nearly all moviegoers know the plot of Frankenstein; ...

"I have a fire in my soul, and I will no longer allow you or anyone else to contain it," a teenaged Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin declares in the first trailer for Mary Shelley, a new biopic about the ...

Mary Wollstonecraft was a remarkable woman who scorned the conventions imposed on women in the 18th century. She had one child out of wedlock and refused to live in the same home as the man she later ...