Nineteenth Century Literature

Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens at 200

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young woman, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had shrunk to skin and bone.

~  Charles Dickens  Great Expectations

Boris Karloff as The Monster in Frankenstein,  Universal Pictures, 1931.

In 2018, the literary world marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Visit the following websites and look for local events that celebrate this historic novel.