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06
Nov
2009
John Polidori and The Vampyre

127 days ago by annimi

Polidori was the friend and personal physician of the infamous rogue and poet, Lord Byron. He was also part of the close-knit circle of friends, including Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Byron, and Claire Clairmont, Mary’s stepsister, and also Byron’s woman of the hour. Polidori was Byron’s personal ph ...

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20
Jun
2009
John Polidori and The Vampyre

265 days ago by gypsyscarlett

On a frigid June evening in 1816, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Godwin (later Shelley), Claire Clairmont, and Doctor John Polidori huddled together in their summerhouse on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. With a thunderstorm raging outside, Byron passed the time by reading out loud from Da ...

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