Naples, Italy

Naples--Victor's Birthplace

We tend to think Victor's birthplace is Geneva, since his narrative includes, "I am, by birth, Genevese." 

The Storymap site I included in the thread drew my attention to this point.

Mary Shelley's Travels in 1816

Let's use this thread to track Mary and her company's 1816 travel. The same ideas apply with our 1814 site. 

Based on the Mary's and Percy's letters in the History of a Six Weeks' Tour, you can locate places of their visit. Use this map to create their travels. You can refer to the existing mapping done by Moskal (I included in the thread below in Mary Shelley's Travel in 1814).

Mary Shelley's Travels in 1814

We will use this thread to trace the 1814 travel route of Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and Claire.  Use this site to deepen your understanding of the sites they visited, historicize their context, and compare some of the places they visited with the scenes that appear in Frankenstein. Think of the ways in which Shelley's experience of the places and cultures inspire and influence her depictions in the novel.