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Mary Shelley: Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour. With Elle Fanning, Bel Powley, Owen Richards, Joanne Froggatt. Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Haifaa Al-Mansour
- 2018-07-05
May 25, 2018 · Mary and Percy quickly fall in love, and Percy offers to be Godwin's (Stephen Dillane) apprentice. Even though Percy is legally still married to his first wife, he and Mary run away together, her stepsister Claire (Bel Powley) in tow.
- Haifaa Al-Mansour
- Sandie Angulo Chen
- IFC Films
May 25, 2018 · She meets the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley played by Douglas Booth; they become lovers and share a home. He is married and has two children; Mary distracts herself by studying re-animation of the human body via galvanism, the use of electrical charge.
Upon their return to England, Mary was pregnant with Percy's child. Over the next two years, she and Percy faced ostracism, constant debt and the death of their prematurely born daughter. They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley's wife, Harriet.
Jul 10, 2018 · She was the daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and anarchist William Godwin; married the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and was mates with the likes of Byron and Coleridge. Her life is...
- 2 min
- sophiecharara
A 2017 dramatization (although not by much) about the family life of Mary Shelley. It begins with her as a girl who enjoys books, the daughter of an author who falls in love with another writer, Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Jul 4, 2018 · They cover the real characters and relationship between Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley, as well as their surrounding acquaintances, chat about the real tragedies of Mary’s life and inspirations behind her novel, and discuss the broader implications of loosely historical biographical films in a context of women’s writing, and public ...
