Mary Shelley, along with her Husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, spent time in Geneva while she wrote the novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. In the novel, the Frankenstein family is from Geneva. In the preface of the novel Shelley says, “I passed the summer of 1816 in the environs of Geneva. The season was cold and rainy, and in the evenings we crowded around a blazing wood fire” (Shelley). The couple spent a great amount of time at the Villa Diodati in Geneva with Lord Byron due to the inclement weather hindering their travel.

(or just about as far north as I can place my dot)

This is the Sheldonian Theatre where the degree ceremony took place, honoring the first women to graduate the University of Oxford