In June 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, then 18, joined her future husband, the poet Percy Shelley, her stepsister Claire, Lord Byron and the physician John Polidori for a holiday here.

Mary was on holiday with her lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, their four-month-old son William, their friend Lord Byron and Byron’s physician, John Polidori. Frankenstein: First told under stormy ...

Lord Byron may be regarded as one of England ... during a drizzly holiday by Lake Geneva – Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin, and their doctor friend John William Polidori told each ...

Possibly even more interesting than the story within Frankenstein is the story of its author, Mary Shelley ... summer in ...

Mary Shelley What does one say to introduce the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein (1818 ... one which could compete with those being written by Percy Bysshe, Lord Byron, and Dr. John Polidori: “I ...

There, at the south-west corner of the National Garden, on the east side of central Athens, stands a statue of Lord Byron ... joined by Percy Shelley and his lover Mary Godwin; the future ...