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3 days ago · John William Polidori answered Byron's challenge by writing a short story called The Vampyre. It was so innovative and became so popular that it is considered the progenitor of the romantic vampire genre. Unlike Stoker, Polidori depicted his vampire as a refined, beautiful man, a seducer, a sort of romantic and sensual “undead Casanova”.
3 days ago · In the summer of 1816, Byron vacationed by Lake Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin (later Mary Shelley), and John William Polidori (Byron’s doctor). During this time, they entertained ...
2 days ago · George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788, on Holles Street in London, England [1] – his birthplace is now supposedly occupied by a branch of the department store John Lewis . Byron was the only child of Captain John Byron (known as 'Jack') and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
3 days ago · Our current view of vampires has been influenced by early portrayals of Dracula, though other works affected this, too. Lord Ruthven, the protagonist of John William Polidori’s 1819 story The Vampyre, is portrayed as sophisticated and alluring. The Dracula of the 1924 Derby production built on this. “It’s like a big tree branch,” says ...
2 days ago · Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born into a culturally rich environment that was instrumental in shaping his artistic and intellectual development. His father, Gabriele Rossetti, was a poet and a political exile from Naples, while his mother, Frances Polidori, was the sister of John William Polidori, the famous writer and physician to Lord Byron.
3 days ago · On the night of June 19, 1816, four friends were trapped by a storm at a lodge in the Swiss Alps. Lord Byron hosted the impromptu party, and his guests included Byron’s physician, Dr. John Polidori, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his lover, Mary Wollstonecraft, daughter of author William Godwin.
4 days ago · They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley's first wife, Harriet. In 1816, the couple famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William Polidori, and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Mary conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein.
