Reading Frankenstein through public domain archives, wiki sources & web folklore.

1.It was written for a contest in a year without summer.
http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/16/the-poet-the-physician-and-the-birth-of-the-modern-vampire/
http://history.info/society/culture/1767-french-scholar-who-collected-german-ghost-stories/20631/

2.The figure of the modern vampire story came from that contest.
http://www.public.asu.edu/~cajsa/thevampyre1816/complete_text_vampyre.pdf

3.Another figure : Frankenstein, "the rampant Creature as a possible incarnation of the loathed and de-humanized climatic refugee of 1816".
http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/06/15/frankenstein-the-baroness-and-the-climate-refugees-of-1816/

3.Early SF literary work or a proto climate change novel ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gi%C3%A9tro_Glacier

5.It was first published anonymously.
http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/mary-shelley-frankenstein-and-the-villa-diodati

6.It was Inspired by Mary Shelley's personal family tragedy.
http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/11/25/the-science-of-life-and-death-in-mary-shelleys-frankenstein/#fn1

7. It was Inspired by Mary Shelley's (summer) readings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#Shelley.27s_sources
8. The names weren't choosen at random.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43843

9.Interpreting the myth : images stronger than the literary artwork.
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/frankenstein-1910/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#Films.2C_plays_and_television

10.Everyone involved In the contest died tragically
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/28/byron-and-shelley-were-monsters


Conversation with Frankeinstein novel through Public Domain sources
http://publicdomainreview.org/search/Frankenstein

http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/frankenstein-1910/
#FILM
The first film adaptation of the often filmed Mary Shelley story, directed and produced by J Searle Dawley for the Edison Manufacturing Co.

http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/10/10/stories-of-a-hollow-earth/
#READINGS
Mary Shelley mentions in her diary that she read Klim as she was writing Frankenstein.

http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/06/15/frankenstein-the-baroness-and-the-climate-refugees-of-1816/
#CLIMATE CHANGE NOVEL #REFUGEES #FEAR #MONSTERS
An alternative lens  through which to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein : humanitarian crisis triggered by the unusual weather / the monster eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in April, 1815, spun  a veil of volcanic dust around the Earth, blocking the sun.