[DOC] [TLE] Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati - The British Library [PAR] Mary's unconventional life up to the summer of 1816 (when she was still only 18), 
... The vital spark that gave the novel life however was Lord Byron's suggestion 
one ... volume History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, 
... recalls the ghost story competition at Villa Diodati in the Preface to her 1831... [DOC] [TLE] Mary Shelley - Wikipedia [PAR] Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (ne Godwin; 30 August 1797  1 February 1851) 
was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and 
travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern 
Prometheus (1818) .... In the 1831 introduction to Frankenstein, she recalled: "I 
wrote thenbut in a... [DOC] [TLE] Frankenstein - Wikipedia [PAR] Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author 
Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who 
creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. 
Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the ... 
Mary, Percy, Lord Byron and John Polidori decided to have a competition to... [DOC] [TLE] Mary Shelley as Autobiographer: The Evidence of the 1831 ... - JStor [PAR] Mary Shelley's Introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein Until 1963, when 
... ceived her novel, and she misrepresents Shelley's role in its develop- sons of 
his ... tenais that survive documenting the ghost-story contest, I have come and (6
) he .... gives "Many and long were the conversations between Lord Byron and. [DOC] [TLE] Frankenstein - Shmoop [PAR] Frankenstein Introduction ... It was a bummer of a vacation, since the 1815 
eruption of Indonesian ... You have a ghost story contest. Lord Byron challenged 
everyone to write the scariest, freakiest, spookiest story they could come up with. 
... for it or not), she expanded her short story into a novel and published it in 1818. [DOC] [TLE] Frankenstein Chronology - Shelley-Godwin Archive [PAR] For the latest and fullest Chronology of Life and Works of MWS, see 1818 .... As 
MWS recalled in her 1831 Introduction, she and others read Some ... then 'We 
will each write a ghost story,' said Lord Byron; and his proposition was acceded 
to. ..... or novel while she, PBS, their son William, Claire Clairmont, and the Swiss
... [DOC] [TLE] The Origin of Frankenstein - Neatorama [PAR] Oct 17, 2011 ... "I busied myself to think of a story," she recalled, "One which would speak to ... 
Mary sat by the fireplace, listening to her husband and Byron discuss the ... 
Finally, to take her mind off the creature, she went back to the ghost story she'd ... 
And since her husband wrote the book's preface, people assumed he... [DOC] [TLE] Summer of Love: The Romantics at Lake Geneva - Online Exhibitions [PAR] Byron's traveling companion and physician, John Polidori, wrote a ... made by 
Thomas Henry Graham (17931881) during an 1818 tour of Switzerland and 
France. ... When Percy Shelley met Lord Byron in 1816, the latter was England's 
most ... he challenged Mary Shelley to write the ghost story that became 
Frankenstein. [DOC] [TLE] Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Poetry Foundation [PAR] When not known as the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, she is ... efforts, 
the "monster abhorr'd" of her great novel Frankenstein (1818), is tainted by 
popular ... discussion of the Shelley-Byron party turned toward German ghost 
stories. .... In her preface she is acknowledging that travel writing is not poetry, but 
that it is... [DOC] [TLE] Mellor, "My Hideous Progeny" - Frankenstein [PAR] But fifteen years later, Mary Shelley vividly recalled her mortification at being 
forced to ... In her description of the ghost story competition, Mary Shelley stated 
that several ... Then, she says, came the evening discussion between Byron and 
Percy ... Her Introduction

Question: In the foreword to her 1818 novel, she recalls a trip to Switzerland & a ghost story contest with Lord Byron
Answer: Mary Shelley