Gillen D’Arcy Wood

is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of two books on British Romanticism.

Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816

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Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816

It is two hundred years since “The Year Without a Summer”, when a sun-obscuring ash cloud – ejected from one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history – caused temperatures to plummet the world over.

Gillen D’Arcy Wood