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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050807
Author:GARY DEXTER

THE SLEEP of reason produces monsters, but in Mary Shelley's case it was a foreign holiday that did it. In 1814, four years before the publication of Frankenstein, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley eloped to the continent. From their boat moored at Gernsheim on the Rhine, they would have been able to see, high on a crag, a mist-shrouded castle: the Castle Frankenstein. It was the former home of one Konrad Dippel, also known as Dippel of Frankenstein, who in the early 18th century had conducted experiments on animal bones in an attempt to re- animate the dead, and had been expelled from Strasbourg ...

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