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Where did Mary Shelley begin writing Frankenstein in 1816?
In June 1816, Mary Godwin (later Mary Shelley) was at the Villa Diodati on the south shore of Lake Geneva, trapped indoors by the cold rain of the Year Without a Summer — the climate consequence of the 1815 Tambora eruption. Byron proposed a ghost-story competition. Frankenstein was the result.
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The Summer That Wasn’t, and the Monster It Made In June 1816 it rained for a month at Lake Geneva. Five English visitors were stuck indoors. One of them was eighteen years old, and she had a dream.