In the 150 years since her death, Mary Shelley has suffered at the hands of throngs of literary critics and historians. Now, in Miranda Seymour, she finds a biographer both meticulous and sympathetic.

Ann Wroe’s daring new biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), perhaps the most inadvertently comic of the Romantics, reminded me just how Faustian a figure the poet cut. As a student at Oxford ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Elle Fanning delivers an impressive performance as Mary Shelley. What an extraordinary life Mary Shelley lived: falling madly in love ...