Mary Shelley, 1820
Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus
Multimedia Resources
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Cloning
The Search for the Northwest Passage
See also, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley from Brandeis University
Mary Shelley 213th Birthday Google Doodle, August 30, 2010
She finished writing the novel "Frankenstein" when she was 19 years-old.
Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, an early women's rights advocate who died days after her birth.
She married the poet Percy Shelley. Their love affair is depicted in a 2017 movie, "A Storm in the Stars", in which she was played by the Hollywood actress Elle Fanning
The image is based on the first stage production of Frankenstein in London in 1823.
T.P. Cooke as Frankenstein's monster, 1823 |
Editions of Frankenstein
Hear the novel read aloud on Librivox
The Shelley-Goodwin Archive: Frankenstein
Multimedia Resources
Poster from the 1931 film Frankenstein |
It's Alive: 1931 Frankenstein Movie Clip staring Boris Karloff
Did Climate Inspire the Birth of a Monster? NPR, August 13, 2007. This podcast explored how weather, namely the Mount Tambora volcano eruption in Indonesia created the dark and stormy atmosphere depicted in the novel.
PHI Hartman Frankenstein Sketches from Saturday Night Live
Google Lit Trips - Frankenstein
Teaching Frankenstein with The New York Times
Maybe Frankenstein Really IS the Monster, Chicago Humanities Festival
A Teacher's Guide to Frankenstein from Penguin Books
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The Hubris of Dr. Frankenstein and Reproductive Cloning, Albany Medical College
Cloning Fact Sheet, from National Human Genome Research Institute
Will Cloning Ever Save Endangered Animals? Scientific American (March 11, 2013)
The Search for the Northwest Passage
Frankenstein opens with a ship trapped in the Arctic ice, lost on its search for the Northwest Passage
A Northwest Passage Journey Finds Little Ice and Big Changes (2019)