• Celebrating the creation of Frankenstein on the shores of Lake Geneva

  • Aug 23 2024
  • Length: 3 mins
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Celebrating the creation of Frankenstein on the shores of Lake Geneva

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  • In June 1816, gothic writer Mary Shelley and her soon-to-be husband Percy Shelley stayed with Lord Byron in Cologny on the shores of Lake Geneva. It was at the⁠ Villa Diodati ⁠where the first seeds of her novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, were sown when Byron challenged each member of the group to write a ghost story

    In 2018 the ⁠Martin Bodmer Foundation⁠ in Geneva held a ⁠special exhibition⁠ to mark the 200th anniversary.

    Katy Dartford went along to find out more.

    Read about Byron, and Mary and Percey Shelley at my website: ⁠'So you think you know Chamonix'.⁠

    2024 is the bicentenary of Lord Byron's death

    About me:

    www.katydartford.com

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