A precursor to gothic literature and science fiction genres, Frankenstein is a novel fuming with imagination as it depicts a well known horror story. Shellys gothic fiction is...
A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster Frankenstein. Rejected by society, Frankenstein vows revenge on his...
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because...
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is Mary Wollstonecrafts unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. It was published...
Frankenstein begins in epistolary form, documenting the correspondence between Captain Robert Walton and his sister, Margaret Walton Saville. Walton sets out to explore the North...
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a humanoid but fails to nurture and educate...
Mary Shelleys 1818 novel presents the Faustian story of a man who aspires to create life out of death, with disastrous results. The novel is constructed as a series of...
Mary Magdalene was one of the prominent women present in the New Testament. She is one of Jesus' most faithful speakers, and always believed that he was the true Messiah....
First published in 1916, ‘Mary Louise’ by popular children’s author L. Frank Baum is the first in a series of children’s detective stories about the courageous young Mary...
'Gracefully sweeping through the dramatic life of the woman behind history’s most legendary monster, Miranda Seymour unbuttons a world of brilliant literary figures in...