Episode #8- The first in our Halloween inspired episode in the month of October! The Summer of 1816, was the "perfect storm" inspiring two great works of it! Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was inspired by her time in Italy with famed poets Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, her half sister Clair Claremont and the troubled Dr. John Polidori. We follow Mary tragic life and what became of her fellow writers after that legendary time in Switzerland I. The year with no summer!



Sources:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/6171507/how-opium-fuelled-orgies-and-lightning-gave-birth-to-mary-shelleys-frankenstein/

https://mary-shelley.fandom.com/wiki/Summer_of_1816

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/mary-shelley_creating-frankenstein--the-lake-geneva-monster/12808

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/travel/lake-geneva-as-byron-and-shelley-knew-it.html

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/sumer-1816-frankenstein-shelley-byron-villa-diodati

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/frankenstein-true-story-mary-shelley

Wikipedia.org on Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Clair Claremont, and Summer of 1816

Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
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