ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MARY SHELLEY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The trip to Geneva, Switzerland will bring together ____
A
Polidori, Byron, Mary i Percy Shelley.
B
Polidori, Byron, Claire Clairmont, Mary i Percy Shelley.
C
Byron, Claire Clairmont, Mary i Percy Shelley.
D
Polidori, Claire Clairmont, Mary i Percy Shelley.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Geneva: Geneva, Switzerland. Home of the Frankenstein family where Victor grew up and to which he returned after college and the creation of the monster. The murders of William and Justine were located in the area around Geneva.

Detailed explanation-2: -Due to the sudden, catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley and their infant daughter traveled to Switzerland to escape the terrible weather they were experiencing in England. They arrived on May 14, 1816.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the summer of 1816 Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin travelled to Switzerland in order to meet Lord Byron. The meeting had been engineered by Mary’s stepsister, Claire Clairmont, who had been Byron’s mistress in London and who was pregnant with his child.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mary Shelley, 1831. ( Villa Diodati, near Geneva, where literary character Frankenstein was created in 1816. ( Illustration from the second edition of the horror story Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1831. ( 09-Mar-2018

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