The Influence of “The Year Without Summer” on Regency Authors
In April 1815, a volcano erupted in Indonesia. Mount Tambora released an estimated 53–58 billion kilograms (tetragrams) of sulfur dioxide into the air, which spread across the entire northern hemisphere. Mount Tambora’s eruption is the largest known volcanic eruption in recorded history. The sheer magnitude of sulfate aerosols entering the stratosphere temporarily cooled the world in what was already proving to be a cold decade. The effects of Mount Tambora caused the following year, 1816, to become known as the “year without…
