FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MARY SHELLEY
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In a house near Lake Geneva in Cologny (France)
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In a house near Lake Geneva in Cologny (England)
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In a house near Lake Geneva in Cologny (Spain)
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In a house near Lake Geneva in Cologne (United States)
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with Dr. John Polidori in the summer of 1816. Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont, who had rented a house nearby, were frequent visitors.
Detailed explanation-2: -But were Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein today, it might have more to do with Geneva being considered by many as a creature of globalisation. Set in beautiful landscaped gardens, the Villa Diodati, where Shelley was inspired to write the novel, is a magnificent sight – even more so on a warm, cloudless spring day.
Detailed explanation-3: -Byron and Shelley got on famously and soon decided to rent adjacent summer houses in the hamlet of Cologny, about four miles north of Geneva.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lake Geneva is located in the Alps between Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in western Europe. It has long been renowned for its beauty. Mary and Percy Shelley and Lord Byron famously went on holiday here and wrote ghost stories, notably Frankenstein.
Detailed explanation-5: -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