Mary Shelley Frankenstein- Research

Mary Shelley was the writer of the very well known story of Frankenstein and Frankenstein's monster. The book was written in Bath and she started the book when she was just 18 years old.

Research Notes:

• Frankenstein was completed in Mary Shelley's lodgings at 5 Abbey Church Yard, Bath. (The building that doesn't exist.)
• Mary had two sisters, Claire Claremont and Fanny Imlay.
• Married to Percy Shelley.
• Mary's father lived in London when he tried to keep the news of Fanny's suicide quiet.
• 12 New Bond Street where Claire Claremont, pregnant with Byron's daughter had lived.
• Fanny Imlay committed suicide.
• Mary and Percy Shelley frequently visited Villa Diodati.
• Lord Byron and John Polidori were also present in the villa that night.
• Legend has it that Mary Shelley finished writing Frankenstein upstairs in what is now Jacob's Coffee House.
• Harriet Westbrook, first wife of Percy Shelley.
• Harriet Westbrook drowned herself in Serpentine river Hyde Park, when she was just 21 years old.
• Luigi Galvani's experiments influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
• Galvani's most renowned experiment happened when he used dead frogs legs to experiment with static electricity, causing it to twitch.

Below are some pictures:

I also drew a quick sketch in my sketchbook, here is a screenshot:

Pictures I took myself.

Links:

http://shelleysghost.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/?location_id=51#Description

http://romantics200.org/2015/10/22/and-still-more/

https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/mary-shelley-frankenstein-and-the-villa-diodati

https://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/misc/shelleysites/england/Bath/Bath.html

http://shelleysghost.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/harriet-shelleys-suicide-letter