The Summer of 1816
Title: The Summer of 1816
Category: /Literature/Novels
Details: Words: 574 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Summer of 1816
Category: /Literature/Novels
Details: Words: 574 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Mary Shelley spent the greater part of the summer of 1816, when she was nineteen, at the Chapuis in Geneva, Switzerland. The entourage included her stepsister, Claire Clairmont, Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori, Byron's physician. Lord Byron rented the Villa Diodoti on the shores of Lake Geneva, which John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost, had visited in the 1600's . Rousseau and Voltaire had also resided on these shores. Mary considered the area to be
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would terrify the artist; he would rush away...hope that...this thing...would subside into dead matter...he opens his eyes; behold the horrid thing stands at his bedside, opening his curtains...
The next morning Mary realized she had found her story and began writing the lines that open Chapter IV of Frankenstein - "It was on a dreary night in November"- She completed the novel in May of 1817 and is was published January 1, 1818.