Shelley places Victor Frankenstein's childhood in Geneva—a nod, perhaps, to where she first conjured him. In June 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then 18, joined her future husband ...

Both 1994’s “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” featuring Kenneth Branagh and Robert De Niro, and 2015’s “Victor Frankenstein,” starring Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, bombed with critics and audiences ...

When Mary was 16, she began an illicit liaison with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was a devoted ... For different ...

The Monster’s embedded narrative also takes the reader back in time to find out what happened after Victor abandoned him. Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein in 1816 when her friends held ...

He introduces himself as Victor Frankenstein and he tells the Captain the story of his life since he was a little boy in Geneva. Victor is a barilliant student, and in love with his stepsister ...

From beginning to end, SF Ballet’s “Frankenstein” hypnotizes. Even as the tragic story finishes just how Shelley intended it ...

In the 1800s, an 18-year-old Englishwoman called Mary Shelley started writing a novel ... in a pair of new gothic thrillers about young Victor Frankenstein's life before he created the most ...

The world-renowned San Francisco Ballet will give 16 performances of internationally lauded American composer Lowell ...