The last days of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Two hundred years after he drowned, Shelley’s poems of tyranny and freedom speak to our own darkening age.
ByMary Shelley
Fiona Sampson’s search for Mary Shelley refuses the typical distance of a biography
This year marks the bicentenary of Shelley’s Frankenstein, a first novel that has become both a modern myth.
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How Frankenstein became a monster – and what he means to us today
Mosntrous Progeny invites us to reflect on two hundred years of a prolific, and horrific, creation.
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Finding vindication: on the intertwined lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon has managed to produce that rare thing, a work of genuinely popular history.
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