ENDURING THE MONSTER Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) wrote her famous "ghost story," Frankenstein, in 1818, while on a vacation on Lake Geneva with her husband, the poet Percy Shelley, the explorer Lord Byron, and Dr. John Polidon. It was a gloomy summer and these Romantic poets each wrote a Gothic story of some kind to […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:38PM on August 22, 2019