Top 10 facts about Frankenstein
MARY Shelley’s novel Frankenstein had its origins 200 years ago today, on June 15, 1816 at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
1. Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, her stepsister Claire Clairmont, Lord Byron and Dr John William Polidori were staying at Villa Diodati during a trip to Switzerland in June 1816.
2. They spent the night of June 15 telling each other ghost stories and talking about life.
3. They all retired to write ghost stories and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was one of the results.
4. It took another two years to get published with the title Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus.
5. John Polidori wrote The Vampyre at the same time. It inspired Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula.
Mary Shelley was only 18 when she began writing Frankenstein
6. Mary Shelley was only 18 when she began writing Frankenstein.
7. The state song of California, I Love You, California is set to music by Abraham Franklin Frankenstein (1873-1934). 8. A 16-minute film of Frankenstein was made in 1910 at Edison Studios in New York.
Top 10 Facts About Frankenstein
9. In the classic 1931 film of Frankenstein, his first name is Henry. In the novel, he was Victor.
10. There is a Frankenstein Castle in Germany where a mad alchemist lived around 1700. It is not clear whether Mary knew of it.