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Mary Shelley (2017)

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Her greatest love inspired her darkest creation

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

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Haifaa al-Mansour
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    Mary Shelley Elle Fanning
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley Douglas Booth
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    Claire Clairmont Bel Powley
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    William Godwin Stephen Dillane
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    Mary Jane Clairmont Joanne Froggatt
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    Lord Byron Tom Sturridge
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    Dr. John Polidori Ben Hardy
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    Isabel Baxter Maisie Williams

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