joeyhazell-art reblogged
In May of 1816 Mary Shelley and her friends went away to Lake Geneva, Switzerland, for a holiday. The weather was so dreadful during that time however- most of Europe was experiencing a “Year Without Summer”- that the friends chose to remain indoors and have a little writing challenge among themselves.
It was during this time that Shelley created her classic gothic-horror many consider as the beginnings of modern sci-fi: “Frankenstein”
In May of 1816 Mary Shelley and her friends went away to Lake Geneva, Switzerland, for a holiday. The weather was so dreadful during that time however- most of Europe was experiencing a “Year Without Summer”- that the friends chose to remain indoors and have a little writing challenge among themselves.
It was during this time that Shelley created her classic gothic-horror many consider as the beginnings of modern sci-fi: “Frankenstein”
By today's standards, Radclyffe Hall believed in an outdated concept of queerness; Those of variant sexualities were "Inverted", reborn into the wrong body. Her writing helps us understand how our predecessors tried to make sense of themselves to a dismissive world
This 4th piece in my series of animated portraits was inspired by Hall's short story "Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself" in which a woman struggles to fit into her societal role after returning home from WWI, and learns of her past life as a warrior from an prehistoric era.