maudnewton: This photo tour of the Shelleys’ and Byron’s Lake Geneva, where Frankenstein, “The Vampyre,” and “Prisoner of Chillon” were conceived one summer, is almost as great as Mary Shelley’s draft of Frankenstein. (via sarahwrotethat.)

maudnewton:

This photo tour of the Shelleys’ and Byron’s Lake Geneva, where Frankenstein, “The Vampyre,” and “Prisoner of Chillon” were conceived one summer, is almost as great as Mary Shelley’s draft of Frankenstein. (via sarahwrotethat.)

  1. Date Posted Icon 22nd August 2011
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