The Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein. piThe Determined Heart/i reveals the life of Mary Shelley in a story of love and obsession, betrayal and redemption./ppThe daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley had an unconventional childhood populated with the most talented and eccentric personalities of the time. After losing her mother at an early age, she finds herself in constant conflict with a resentful stepmother and a jealous stepsister. When she meets the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she falls deeply in love, and they elope with disastrous