Explicit

Episode #8 The Summer Of 1816- Origins Of Frankenstein & Life of Mary Shelley

Oct 4, 2021 · 1h 17m 25s
Episode #8 The Summer Of 1816- Origins Of Frankenstein & Life of Mary Shelley
Description

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...

show more
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!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/danijel-zambo/friendly-ghost
License code: LZ5ZUHQLWV7IN6XH
show less
Information
Author The Cousins Weird
Organization The Cousins Weird
Website -
Tags

Looks like you don't have any active episode

Browse Spreaker Catalogue to discover great new content

Current

Podcast Cover

Looks like you don't have any episodes in your queue

Browse Spreaker Catalogue to discover great new content

Next Up

Episode Cover Episode Cover

It's so quiet here...

Time to discover new episodes!

Discover
Your Library
Search