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From the minds of award-winning playwright Jess Sayer and director Oliver Driver, comes MARY: The Birth of Frankenstein.
Frosts, ice and snow in June, July and August? It happened one legendary summer — and it took scientists about 100 years to ...
On May 22, 2025, the government of the United Kingdom signed the much-discussed treaty transferring sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, which included a lease agreement for the ...
William Collins has triumphed in a six-way auction for Andrew Stauffer’s narrative history of the summer of 1816 and the creation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
In the summer of 1816, a real-life gathering took place at the Villa Diodati ... Surrounding her are the dangerous poet Lord Byron (Tom Clarke), wild and charming Percy Shelley (Dominic Ona-Ariki), ...
Lord Byron penned the poem “Darkness” during this time, and Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, forever changing the literary world. There is a reason, after all, that many horror stories still begin “on ...
On April 21, 1816, Lord Byron signed the deed of separation and left England. Lady Byron spent her life speaking ill about her husband, and Ada Lovelace became infamous in Victorian society.
Carlos Correa and Byron Buxton had a scary collision in the outfield during their game on Thursday that sent them both into concussion protocol.
On April 19, we honor Lord Byron, a fervent Philhellene whose £4,000 cheque—equivalent to £332,000 today—revealed by The Observer, underscores his vital support for the Greek War of Independence, ...
Thought about the above reviewing historical events of Jan. 22, when this appeared from 1816: Lord Byron completed poems “Parisina” and “Siege of Corinth” on his 28th birthday.
Like relics of some medieval saint, brown fragments now lie in a dimly lit glass case in Ravenna. They are pieces of the skin of the poet and outrager of society, Lord George Gordon Byron ...