In 1815, the clever and courted Annabella Milbanke married the notorious and brilliant Lord Byron. Just one year later, she fled, taking with her their baby daughter, Ada Lovelace. Byron himself escaped into exile and died as a revolutionary hero in 1824. Brought up by a mother who became one of the most progressive reformers of Victorian England, Byron's little girl was introduced to mathematics as a means of calming her wild spirits. As a child...

An intimate, profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction - above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea - that has a passionate following...

The story of Mary Shelley's seminal horror story. At 19, young Mary Shelley, wife of the English poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, was well versed in the scientific research of the time, impressing even scientists by her masterpiece. This documentary does Mary Shelley justice by exploring her novel and its eternal theme: man's quest for the secret of life.