It was in 1816 that the science-fiction masterpiece Frankenstein was conceived ... the home of exiled poet Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne). In an intimate evening stoked by drugs and inclement weather ...
Mary was on holiday with her lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, their four-month-old son William, their friend Lord Byron and Byron’s physician, John Polidori. Frankenstein: First told under stormy ...
Lord Byron may be regarded as one of England ... 18-year-old Mary (not yet married to Shelley) turned her idea into the novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. But Polidori also adapted ...
Possibly even more interesting than the story within Frankenstein is the story of ... During a summer in Geneva with Romantic ...
[Read: Frankenstein reflects the hopes and fears ... and their close friend Lord Byron, it isn’t surprising that her protagonist finds, in the natural world, plenty to enrich the mind and ...
Lord Byron (Photo: Wikipedia ... This is where Mary produced an early version of what would become her novel Frankenstein, while Polidori used Byron as inspiration for “The Vampire”.