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At whose Swiss villa did Mary Shelley first conceive the idea for 'Frankenstein' during a rainy summer in 1816?
Answer
Lord Byron's
The gathering took place at Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva, which Lord Byron had rented, where he challenged his guests to each write a ghost story.
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Mary Shelley conceived Frankenstein during a ghost-story contest with Lord Byron and her husband, after reading about galvanism experiments on dead frogs.
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- Percy Bysshe Shelley's
- John Keats's
- William Wordsworth's
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