Frankenstein (In Our Time)
1818 · Resource
In a programme first broadcast in May 2019, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's (1797-1851) Gothic story of a Swiss natural philosopher, Victor Frankenstein, and the creature he makes from parts of cadavers and which he then abandons, horrified by his appearance, and never names. Rejected by all humans who see him, the monster takes his revenge on
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Around 1818
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)