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Episode #504

Eyeball Territory

#504 Eyeball Territory
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Credit: Editions of Frankenstein at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England (Andy Mabbett / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Karen:

Mary Shelley

Episode sources:

  1. “Mary Shelley” by Miranda Seymour 2002

  2. “In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein” by Fiona Sampson 2018

  3. “Romantic Outlaws” by Charlotte Gordon 2016

  4. “The Eruption of Mount Tambora (1815-1818) (Climate in Global Cultures & Histories: Promoting Climate Literacy Across Disciplines) 2023

  5. “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley” by Kathleen Kuiper (Britannica)

  6. “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley” (Poetry Foundation)

  7. “Shelley Memorial” (University College Oxford)

  8. “Tambora 1815: Just How Big Was the Eruption?” by Erik Klemetti (Wired) 2015

  9. “Mary Shelley and Frankenstein, Her Personal History” by Hillary Rappaport (Central Square Theater)

  10. “The Seven Sorrows of Yunnan” by Li Yuyang

  11. “Harriet Shelley” (Penn)

  12. “The Night Frankenstein was Born” by Amy Manikowski (Biblio) 2021

  13. “‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’: the scandalous life of Lord Byron” by Lauren Good (History Extra) 2024

  14. “Blast from the Past” by Robert Evans (Smithsonian Magazine) 2002

  15. “Was Lord Byron England’s 1st Vampire? John Polidori & the Birth of the Literary Bloodsucker” by David Castleton (The Serpent’s Pen) 2020

  16. “Tambora Erupts in 1815 and Changes World History [Excerpt]” by Willian K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman (Scientific American) 2013

  17. “Mary Shelley’s Obsession with the Cemetery” by Bess Lovejoy (JSTOR) 2018

  18. “Fantasmagoriana: the German book of ghost stories that inspired Frankenstein” by Fabio Camilletti (The Conversation) 2018

  19. “John William Polidori” (UPenn)

  20. “Mary Shelley Invented Science Fiction—and Pioneered Polyamory Too” by Rosemary Counter (Vanity Fair) 2025

  21. “Fantasmagoria: or, The Ghost Stories that Galvanized Frankenstein” (Lisa Morton) 2018

  22. “1816, The Year Without a Summer” by Gillen D’Arcy Wood (Branch Collective)

  23. “Became the neighbors of Lord Byron” (Penn)

  24. “Why Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley were rule breakers” by Charlotte Gordon (Penguin Books) 2015

  25. “SEARCHING FOR CLAIRE CLAIRMONT” By Marty Ambrose (History Imagined) 2022

  26. “Clairmont tells the story of the woman Byron cast aside” by Angela Wright (The Conversation) 2024

  27. “Mount Tambora” (Wikipedia)

 
 

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