She will forever be remembered as the writer who gave the world Frankenstein. But the real life story of Mary Shelley—and the creation of her immortal monster—is nearly as fantastical as her fiction. Raised by a renowned philosopher father (Stephen Dillane) in 18th-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Elle Fanning) is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth). So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of her Gothic masterwork. Imbued with the imaginative spirit of its heroine, Mary Shelley brings to life the world of a trailblazing woman who defied convention and channeled her innermost demons into a legend for the ages.
I absolutely loved this movie my daughter picked it but it is now one of my top ten movies of all time. The movie is well put together and a part of history that I know and cherish.
I studied this writer at my University. Her husband was very jealous of her, they were friends of Lord Byron. She had so much opposition and criticism from society that she never wrote again. At that time they was a philosophical movement called the Beautiful and the Sublime a book by Edmund Burke. Her book was actually written following this current movement at the time. She was extremely intelligent even those around her were jeopardy by her talent. Years later when I read Mice and men, I realized this book was nothing by a plagiarism of Mary Shelley book. I must say besides alcohol they use opioid during that time. We have not changed much unfortunately people chased creative that they don’t have with drugs. Get a copy of Frankenstein at the library and read it her writing it’s superb it’s not what you think.
16,000 producers listed in the credits before the cast! that’s funny!