History Film / MaryShelley

* MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: Mary's mother died form complications from her birth, although no one seems to hold it against her except Mary herself.

* {{Polyamory}}: Mary is chagrined to find out that her husband is a believer in the principle.

* {{Polyamory}}: Mary is chagrined to find out that her husband is a believer in the principal.

* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Percy Shelley is portrayed as erratic, impulsive, and narcissistic - historians today believe he suffered from bipolar disorder.
** Lord Byron is portrayed as superficially friendly and charming, but callous and almost casually cruel to Mary and Claire, the expectant mother of his child. In the present day, it is believed he had Antisocial Personality Disorder.

** While looking at ''The Nightmare'' by painter Henry Fuseli, Mary comments that her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was once in love with him and attempted suicide when he left her for another woman. In reality, Fuseli was already married when Wollstonecraft met him, with his wife persuading him to break off his relationship with Wollstonecraft (Wollstonecraft later stated they never had a physical relationship, but she did have intense feelings for him). It was actually being rejected and abandoned by Gilbert Imlay, the father of her eldest daughter, that contributed to Wollstonecraft's suicide attempt (she later made a second attempt the same year). The situation was also a bit more complex than her just taking the break-up badly.[[note]]Imlay had left Wollstonecraft and their baby daughter living in poverty in France, in the middle of the French Revolution (during which several of Wollstonecraft's friends were imprisoned and executed, and she herself was a potential target of the revolutionaries) and it's probable she was suffering from depression on top of this, not to mention being an unwed mother was considered scandalous ''at best'' for the time period; Wollstonecraft faced a lot of criticism and humiliation when she had to admit she and Imlay were never married after he deserted her.[[/note]]

Stars Creator/ElleFanning as Mary.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: While most accounts do suggest that Percy Shelley was a ''very'' difficult man to live with, Mary was in reality just as on-board with an open marriage as he was and had a number of lovers, and wasn't the victimized wife waiting at home as portrayed in the film.

A dramatization (although not by much) about the family life of Creator/MaryShelley.

A dramatization (although not by much) about the family life of Creator/MaryShelley. It begins with her as a girl who enjoys books, the daughter of an author who falls in love with another writer, Creator/PercyByssheShelley. They enter a whirlwind romance, which gets deconstructed as a bit less than ideal through various personal problems as the path to her writing the novel ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' grows nearer, while she works through her family relationships. The story contains elements of gothic romance, and drama. Stars Creator/ElleFanning as Mary.

* SympatheticAdulterer: Zigzagged, and subjected to viewer interpretation but Shelley does seem to have strong feelings for Mary but is married with a child when they meet, yet claims he and his wife have been operated and irreconcilable for a long time, something which is implied to be true (albeit quite possibly his fault).

* PetTheDog: Byron does approve of Mary's intellectualism, calling her different from other women in a platonic sense and saying he looks forward to reading her work someday. He also futilely attempts to give Polidori the credit for his novel after Byron's publisher publishes it as Byron's, although that is more because he sees it as a mediocre work that he doesn't ''want'' the credit for.

* TakeThat: Polidori writes ''TheVampyre'', perhaps the [[UrExample first ever]] VampireFiction, as an insulting allegory towards Byron, something he openly admits.

--> '''Mr. Goodwin:''' If you ever see Mr. Shelley again prepare to lose the love of a father forever

* TakeThat: Polidori writes [[Literature/TheVampyre his story]], perhaps the [[UrExample first ever]] VampireFiction, as an insulting allegory towards Byron, something he openly admits.

A dramatization (although not by much) about the life family of Creator/MaryShelley. It begins with her as a girl who enjoys books, the daughter of an author who falls in love with another writer, Creator/PercyByssheShelley. They enter a whirlwind romance, which gets deconstructed as a bit less than ideal through various personal problems as the path to her writing the novel ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' grows nearer, while she works through her family relationships. The story contains elements of gothic romance, and drama. Stars Creator/ElleFanning as Mary.

* TheMistress" Technically Mary for most of the film considering that Shelley is still married to Harriet for a while.

A dramatization (although not by much) about the life family of Creator/MaryShelley. It begins with her as a girl who enjoys books, the daughter of an author who falls in love with another writer, Creator/PercyByssheShelley. They enter a whirlwind romance, which gets deconstructed as a bit less than ideal through various personal problems as the path to her writing the novel ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' grows nearer, while she works through her family relationships. The story contains elements of gothic romance, and drama.
Stars Creator/ElleFanning as Mary.

* BadDreams: Claire suffers from constant, vivid nightmares. Mary has her share of them as well in the second half of the film.

A dramatization (although not by much) about the life family of Creator/MaryShelley. It begins with her as a girl who enjoys books, the daughter of an author who falls in love with another writer, Creator/PercyByssheShelley. They enter a whirlwind romance, which gets deconstructed as a bit less than ideal through various personal problems as the path to her writing the novel ''Literature/Frankenstein'' grows nearer, while she works through her family relationships. The story contains elements of gothic romance, and drama.

* AdaptedOut: Mary's older maternal half-sister, a real-life member of her household, is neither sen nor mentioned.

* BadDreams: Claire suffers from constant, vivid nightmares, and Mar has her share of them as well in the second half of the film.

--> '''Mr. Goodwin:''' If you ever see mr. shelley again prepare to lose the love of a father forever * LastNameBasis: Percy, for the most part.

* ItsAllMyFault: [Shelley seems horrified and upset upon hearing that [[spoiler: his ex-wife committed suicide]].

* TheMistress" Technically Mayr for most fo the film considering that Shelley is still legally married to Harriett for a while.
* NiceGuy: Lord Byron's physician, Polidori, who gives Mary encouraging u realistic words about her work and rebukes her husband for his treatment of her.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Mary has nothin kind to say to the publisher who patronizes her work and insinuates that Percy was the one who really wrote it.
* RichesToRags: The Shelly's and Claire after Percy's father cuts him off.

* TakeThat: Polidori writes his story, perhaps the [[UrExample first ever]] VampireFiction, as an insulting allegory towards Byron, something he openly admits.

* WickedStepmother: While sometimes [[JerkassHasAPoint making good points]] Mary's stepmother isa stern, jealous person who is resented by both Mary and her own daughter.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Shelley giving Mary the credit for the book, publicly at a time when she ws there, listening but he was unaware of that.