If this is a return visit, please reload to see latest additions. Mary Shelley: I admit it took me quite a while to finally read the works of Mary Shelley but I've come to remedy that, in recent years. I was quite surprised at how different the text of Frankenstein was from the movie versions of the tale, and was enamored immediately of the difference. Here was something presumably horrific, to its contemporary audience, and turned to a story of insanity by our contemporaries, and yet, to me, the novel's spotlight shown brightest on its examination of the madness of creativity and what it can do the artist (or in Frankenstein's case, Creator). I fell in love and after some meandering here and there, I must admit, have finally stumbled upon more by this fabulous author. Do look into the subject and I'm sure you will be pleasantly surprised. new! Mary Shelley's Gothic Reading Lists the literature that inspired her (and yes, her husband) Mary Shelley Biography Writing and Melancholia: Saving the Self in Mary Shelley's 'The Mourner' by Kerry Ellen McKeeverr, 1999 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Myth for Modern Man by Patricia A. Neal, Ph.D., 1996? More to come. Set by webmistress, for the exclusive use of Immortal Grace. Please do not snag. Artist of picture above unknown. No copyright infringement intended.