The Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, rented by Lord for the summer of 1816. In the Villa that summer, Mary Shelley would be inspired to write & Byron's doctor John Polidori would write The Vampyre, one of the 1st novels.

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The Gulf Stream, 1899, Winslow Homer

"To me this world's a dreary blank,
All hopes in life are gone and fled,
My high strung energies are sank,
And all my blissful hopes lie dead"
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Whenever Shelley had too much to drink, she turns into a hammered honkaroo.

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I felt like drawing Shelley in a swimsuit.

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Today is Many animals in the Himalayas, like the Bengal are at risk due to poaching and

(Detail from Padmasambhava as Dorje Drolo; Eastern Tibet; 19th Century; Rubin Museum Of Art; Gift Of Shelley And Donald Rubin; C2006.66.214)

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4 May to 30 June 2018: Mary Shelley - Spirit of Place: A temporary exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House with new work by artist More details: https://t.co/xolcAEQPbQ

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"Live, and be happy, and make others so.”

Mary Shelley

📷 Even Liu

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Today is the first of a two week pose modelled by Tilli and run by Shelley, 3-6pm. £10 (£8). https://t.co/yylk3F7V9X

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Henry Fuseli d. 1825. Many believe (myself included) “The Nightmare” inspired a scene in Mary Shelley’s

“She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair."

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Early in the summer of 1817, Mary Shelley finished Frankenstein, which was published anonymously in January 1818.

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🎨"The library window"
👩‍🎨Shelley Thayer Layton (American, 1953)
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This week's color: Laurel Green

💚 'Seagull, fish, crab, duck, seahorse, little rock' (Daniela Faber )
💚 'Woodpecker' (Rob Bounds )
💚 'Spring Grasses' (Shelley Cox )
💚 'Snowdrops' (Barbara Shaw )

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Happy 🌸🌺🌼🌷 What are you doing to celebrate the equinox?

(📜Detail from Amitayus, Buddha of Long Life; Rubin Museum of Art; Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin; C2006.66.14)

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