Mary Shelley(2017)
Her greatest love inspired her darkest creation
The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Movie: Mary Shelley
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Mary Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Claire Clairmont
William Godwin
Mary Jane Clairmont
Lord Byron
Dr. John Polidori
Isabel Baxter
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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