Mary Shelley (2017)

Directors

Haifaa Al-Mansour

Cast

Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Maisie Williams, Joanne Froggatt, Tom Sturridge, Stephen Dillane, Bel Powley, Ciara Charteris

The story

Mary Godwin is the daughter of the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and her husband, the publisher William Godwin. Mary Wollstonecraft had died shortly after giving birth, and when the film opens 16 years later Mary Godwin is living with her father, her stepmother (with whom she has a strained relationship), and her stepsister and close confidante Claire Clairmont. Mary's stepmother insists that Mary be sent away.

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