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In Search of Frankenstein: Photographs by Chloe Dewe Mathews
Photographic Exhibition of the Swiss Alps
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Visit the British Library to see a display of photos from the Alps and inside the Alps - which also gives visitors a rare opportunity of viewing the original manuscript of Frankenstein!
Free Entry: 13 April – 1 July
Switzerland’s 1816 ‘year without a summer’, which provided the backdrop for the conception of Frankenstein, was part of a three-year period of severe climate deterioration. Chloe Dewe Mathews returned to the glaciers 200 years later, and the resulting photographs explore the environmental and social issues of our time through the themes of Mary Shelley’s novel.
Visit the British Library to see a display of photos from the Alps and inside the Alps - which also gives visitors a rare opportunity of viewing the original manuscript of Frankenstein!
Free Entry: 13 April – 1 July
Switzerland’s 1816 ‘year without a summer’, which provided the backdrop for the conception of Frankenstein, was part of a three-year period of severe climate deterioration. Chloe Dewe Mathews returned to the glaciers 200 years later, and the resulting photographs explore the environmental and social issues of our time through the themes of Mary Shelley’s novel.
