Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin, a 16-year-old aspiring writer, falls in love with 21-year-old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his marriage and her family's opposition. They flee to live together, but their happiness is short-lived due to debt, poverty, and the loss of their daughter. Mary's obsession with resurrecting the dead leads her to write "Frankenstein", but when her novel is attributed to Percy, she must fight to claim it as her own and prove that a woman can be a writer.
Mary Shelley
At 16, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin's life took a dramatic turn when she met 21-year-old poet Percy Shelley, leading to a creative partnership that would yield the iconic novel Frankenstein.