Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold ... regular visitors included William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge. She was an avid reader and early scribbler of stories, living ...

Linked to a gruesome 17th-century tale it is said to have been an inspiration for Mary Shelley’s famous novel ‘Frankenstein ... Shortly afterwards a clergyman by the name of Samuel Heinnitz delivered ...