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When Mary was 15, the poet Percy Shelley (who was married and had children) started an affair with her. They ran away, taking Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont with them.
Elle Fanning stars in this uneven, "perfumed account" of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin's romance with poet Percy Shelley, and the fateful weekend that birthed her novel Frankenstein.
At 16, Mary fell in love with Percy Shelley, an aristocrat by birth and atheist by declaration, a rebel at every chance. They ran off together. There was already a Mrs. Shelley: ...
Mary Shelley grew to see the moral darkness of the “free love” and technological triumphalism that marked the ... the poet Percy B. Shelley, whom she would marry in December 1816 ...
The second text, credited to Mary Shelley alone, strips out all of Percy’s “interventions,” as Robinson calls them in an editor’s note, and restores whatever Percy took out.
Mary Shelley, directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour, shows the eponymous young author (Elle Fanning) falling in love with married Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth) and beginning a tumultuous life of travel ...
The tragic story of Prometheus was very much on the minds of Mary and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), who began writing, Prometheus Unbound, a four-act lyrical drama based on the ...
To hear al-Mansour (“Wadjda”) tell it, the hedonism of Percy Shelley and the idealism of Mary Shelley are but limp overtures, masking deep-seeded insecurities.
Percy Shelley’s contributions -- as editor and co-author of sorts -- are easy to locate: Robinson has italicized all of these, whether single words inserted to increase effect (“villain ...
Mary Shelley shares a thematic focal point with some other ... to invest in the movie’s core relationship when it becomes clear just what an uncompromising and unsympathetic figure Percy Shelley is.
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