![]() Byron makes his famous proposal that each should write a ghost story. One wild and stormy night, the three friends meet with the poet Byron and his writer friend John Polidori at Byron’s villa beside Lake Geneva. ![]() Their travels in Europe take them past Castle Frankenstein, the inspiration for Mary’s famous novel. Stifled at home, Mary elopes with the poet Shelley her stepsister Claire goes along. She is introduced to the intelligentsia of London and hears Coleridge reciting The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem she will never forget. She is influenced by the writings of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, whose grave she visits, and by her intellectual but severe father. This picture book focuses on Mary’s solitary childhood, in which she wanders alone through city streets, cultivating her daydreams, or “castles in the air,” which provided the initial inspiration for her novels. ![]() One of a cluster of books celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein. ![]()
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