Mary Shelley and the birth of Frankenstein Research Task

Mary Shelley is the author of the book, 'Frankenstein' which was produced on the 16th of June 1816. Over the summer Mary Shelley, Percy Shelly and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin travelled to Switzerland in order to meet Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont who was Shrelley's step sister and Byron's mistress. Keats Shelley House (2010) Piazza di Spagna 26, 00187 Rome. Available at: http://www.keats-shelley-house.org/en/romanticism/timeline-1816 (Accessed: 16 September 2016). 

After Fanny's suicide due to neglect, Percy Shelley proceeded to right many poems that were all about her. However the family and friends tried to keep Fanny's death hidden so no one would find out. Telegraph (2007) Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3666308/Too-shy-to-gossip-too-plain-to-join-in.html (Accessed: 16 September 2016) Shelley’s Guitar, no. 60; The Clairmont Correspondence, i, pp. 86-9. 

Shelley's bath adress is 5 Abbey Church Yard, Bath, her house no longer exists however the Bath Abbey takes it's place. History Makers of Bath (2014) Available at: http://historymakersofbath.co.uk/mary-shelley-1797-1851/ (Accessed: 16 September 2016) 

Quote from Shelley: "I placed my head on my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. My imagination unbidden, possessed and guided me.. I saw with shut eyes, but acute mental vision, - the pale student of unhallowed arts standing before the thing he had put together, I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion... frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. His success would terrify the artist; he would rush away from his odious handiwork, horror stricken.... He (the artist) sleeps but he is awakened; he opens his eyes; behold, the horrid thing stands at his bedside, opening his curtains and looking on him with yellow, watery, but speculative eyes.". Here she describes how she came up with the idea for the story and a basic overview of the origin story. Frankenstein Films (2007) Available at: http://members.aon.at/frankenstein/frankenstein-novel.htm (Accessed: 16 September 2016)