This might have worked better as a six hour TV mini-series. He failed in his many attempts at farming, and when Mary was fifteen, the family moved to Hoxton, a suburb of London. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction and one of her best-known works. He drank heavily and apparently was abusive verbally and perhaps physically. Her father had inherited wealth from his father but spent the entire fortune. The Swiss scenes where Frankenstein was thought up are surprisingly low key with Polidori (Ben Hardy) providing the main interest. Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759. The real fire rages between Powley and Sturridge even if his Byron portrayal is somewhat reminiscent of Jason Isaacs plying Zhukov. Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering writer, thinker, and activist who published The Vindication of the Rights of. Shelley is a cad who has deserted his wife and child and now hopes to have free love with Mary and more on the side. Mary Shelley wasn’t the first ambitious woman in her family. Booth and Fanning both look exceedingly pretty and it's certainly lust if not love at first sight but somehow there are no real sparks in the relationship.

Mary even has a nasty stepmother (Joanne Froggatt). There is the romance between Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth) and Mary Wollstonecraft (Elle Fanning) her freethinking father William Godwin (Stephen Dillane) her deceased mother Mary Wollstonecraft the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman the affair between Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont (Bel Powley) and Lord Byron (Tom Sturridge) then there is the tale of the Swiss villa where the Frankenstein story was conceived. Mary Shelley: This film is a tad confused as it tries to fit so much into a 2 hour running time.

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