How Extreme Weather Inspired Frankenstein

As part of its Climate Change Connections series, NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce contributes a fascinating feature on how the extreme weather of 1816 likely inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. That year, the volcano Mount Tambora erupted in Indonesia sending vast amounts of dust into the atmosphere, influencing climate across the globe. In Europe, it was called “The Year Without a Summer,” or “eighteen hundred and froze to death.”

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