This station has two parts: a timeline about the author and the book, and the places where the story happens. Take your time and read carefully.
Mary Shelley was born in London in 1797. Her mother died only days later, so Mary grew up with her father, a famous writer. As a young woman she travelled through Europe with the poet Percy Shelley. In the cold, grey summer of 1816, during a holiday at Lake Geneva, she had the idea for Frankenstein. The book came out in 1818, when she was only 20. Mary Shelley kept writing for the rest of her life and died in 1851.
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Frankenstein travels through many parts of Europe. Victor's family lives in Geneva in Switzerland. He studies and builds his creature in Ingolstadt in Germany. Later he meets the creature again high up in the Alps near Mont Blanc. With his friend Clerval he travels through England, and then to the lonely Orkney Islands in Scotland. The story itself begins and ends far away in the icy Arctic, where the explorer Walton meets Victor. Read the descriptions and match them below.
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