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The author John Polidori (1795 - 1821) was an English writer and physician, born in Westminster, London. The son of an Italian émigré writer and governess, he was educated in Yorkshire. He stu…

Mary Shelley (nee. Godwin) was the outright winner of Lord Byron’s contest to see which literary writer could produce the most compelling supernatural / ghost story. The competition took place a…

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was the daughter of the writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the political philosopher William Godwin. Her childhood was defined by a unique blend of intellectual richness a…

This was a community of like-minded individuals, in existence for only a relatively short period of time. The Circle began to form when Percy and Mary Shelley settled in Pisa in the summer of 18…

Percy Bysshe Shelly was born in Horsham, Sussex. His father Sir Timothy Shelley, 2 nd Baronet, was a wealthy landowner and Whig Member of Parliament. His mother, Elizabeth Pilfold came from a p…

Byron is classified as a Pragmatic Philhellene. The title is derived from the words Philos (friend/lover) and Hellen (a Greek). His own political concepts were related to liberalism and a consti…