West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsThe daughter of the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the radical philosopher William Godwin, Mary Shelley was brought up in a free-thinking household of ideas. But when, aged 16, she eloped with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelly, her father cut her off. Aged 18, she wrote Frankenstein, a novel dedicated to her father, about a man who creates a monster that only yearns for love…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PM on March 23, 2012