Mary Shelley

About Mary Shelley

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

Haifaa al-Mansour's Mary Shelley is a 2017 romance film. Elle Fanning takes the lead as Mary Shelley, Douglas Booth as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bel Powley as Claire Clairmont, and Stephen Dillane as William Godwin.

It runs 120 minutes and was released in August 2017. Written by Emma Jensen and Haifaa al-Mansour. It comes from Bac Cinema, BFI, and Film Fund Luxembourg. The story is adapted from real events.

Members will find poet, literature, lord byron, and prometheus in it. In the United States it streams on AcornTV Amazon Channel, Acorn TV Apple TV channel, and AMC+. It scores 7.0 out of 10 from 1,084 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.

Total Eclipse, Unbroken, and The Elephant Man make useful companions to Mary Shelley, all filed under 19th century and biography.