MARY WHO WROTE FRANKENSTEIN

How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read by tracing the letters on the tombstone of her famous feminist mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and whose only escape from her strict fa ther and overbearing stepmother is through the stories she reads and imagines. Unhappy at home, she seeks independence, and at the a ge of sixteen runs away with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, another dreamer. Two years later, they travel to Switzerland where they meet a famous...[Read more]