Mary Shelley

A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

In Praise of a Truly Innovative Writer

 
By Rebecca Solnit  April 9, 2024
Film and TV

Lisa Frankenstein is a Charming Comedy, Even If It’s Missing Some Parts

By Olivia Rutigliano  February 9, 2024
Monsters

“A monster can look like whatever it wants”: On the Allure of Literary Monsters

By Adrian Van Young  October 31, 2023
Craft

Whose Mary Is It Anyway? Anne Eekhout on Fictionalizing Mary Shelley

By Anne Eekhout  October 5, 2023
Art History

On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

By C.E. McGill  May 10, 2023
Criticism

“Every Border is a Story.” On Dividing Lines Both Real and Imagined

By James Crawford  May 3, 2023
The Hub

On creating a board game that is also a work of literature.

By Tommy Wallach  May 1, 2023
Keen On

Stephanie Marie Thornton Imagines the Lost Words Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Visionary Daughter Mary Shelley

By Keen On  March 27, 2023
Pseudoscience

Spectacular Pseudoscience: The Fall and Rise of Bioelectricity

By Sally Adee  February 28, 2023
The Hub

Turns out there’s an actual Frankenstein Castle in Germany—complete with legendary mad scientist.

By Emily Temple  October 25, 2022
Syllabi

Back to School for Everyone: Speculative Women with Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

By Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas  September 6, 2022
Monsters

Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia  July 19, 2022
Travel

You can now buy Mary Shelley’s old address—though you’ll have to bring your own goth.

By Walker Caplan  December 1, 2021
Literary History

The Italian Electrical Scientist Who (May Have) Inspired Frankenstein

By Timothy J. Jorgensen  November 30, 2021
The Cosmic Library

Jim Al-Khalili on the Science of 1,001 Nights

By The Cosmic Library   November 16, 2021
The Hub

Astronomers have determined the exact hour that Mary Shelley thought of Frankenstein.

By Emily Temple  October 5, 2021
The Hub

Proof goth is not dead: A first edition of Frankenstein just set a world auction record.

By Walker Caplan  September 17, 2021
Mothers and Daughters

Who Was Mary Shelley, Daughter?

By Samantha Silva  August 30, 2021
Literary History

How Reading and the Thirst for Knowledge is at the Heart of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

By Heather Cass White  August 23, 2021
The Hub

Here’s the Taylor Swift album you should listen to based on your favorite author.

By Snigdha Koirala  August 12, 2021
The Hub

Which (supposedly terrible) Frankenstein adaptation should you actually watch?

By Dan Sheehan  March 12, 2021
New Books Network

Kathleen Williams Renk Recreates the Inner World of Mary Shelley

By New Books Network  February 18, 2021
The Hub

The most commonly assigned book in US colleges is…

By Jessie Gaynor  January 13, 2021
The Hub

Read Percy Shelley’s review of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

By Book Marks  October 30, 2020
Behind the Mic

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Adapted by Kate McAll, Read by Full Cast

By Behind the Mic   October 21, 2020
The Hub

Did Mary Shelley actually lose her virginity to Percy on top of her mother’s grave?

By Olivia Rutigliano  August 31, 2020
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