At Smith College, the bicentennial is being celebrated with a two-day symposium featuring scholars, artists and writers whose work intersects with Shelley’s monstrous creation. This year marks 200 years since the first publication of “Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus,” and the occasion is being marked across the world with countless readings, screenings and events.
“I saw - with shut eyes, but acute mental vision - I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together,” was how Mary Shelley described how the story of Victor Frankenstein and his hideous creation came to her one evening. NORTHAMPTON - It was in January of 1818 that a 20-year-old woman published a novel in London that would soon come to capture the public imagination - a tale so frighteningly creative that it has maintained a stranglehold on the imagination and curiosity of readers for 200 years. These and other items will be part of an exhibit for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s novel. This and other items will be part of exhibit for the 200 anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein.Ībove and below, Shannon Supple, curator of rare books at Smith College, pages through a first edition and first copy of “Frankenstein,” illustrated with original wood carvings by Barry Moser in 1983. Shannon Supple, Curator of Rare Books at Smith College, shows the brass hand of Barry Moser who illustrated with original wood carvings Frankenstein in 1983. This and other items will be part of exhibit for the 200 anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein. Shannon Supple, Curator of Rare Books at Smith College, pages through first edition and first copy of Frankenstein illustrated with original wood carvings by Barry Moser in 1983.
This and other items will be part of exhibit for the 200 anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein.Ī first edition and first copy of Frankenstein illustrated with original wood carvings by Barry Moser in 1983.
Shannon Supple, Curator of Rare Books at Smith College, pages through first edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley from 1818.
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