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    John William Polidori (7 September 1795 – 24 August 1821) was a British writer and physician. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement...
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    fiction written in 1819 by John William Polidori taken from the story Lord Byron told as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and...
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  • epic poem by John William Polidori concerned with the creation of the world. It was published anonymously in 1821 only months before Polidori's suicide. The...
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    Gaetano Fedele Polidori (5 August 1763 – 16 December 1853) was an Italian writer, political and scholar living in Highgate. He was the son of Agostino...
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    the winged mutant Archangel. He was subsequently cast as writer John William Polidori in Haifaa Al-Mansour's period romance film Mary Shelley, opposite...
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  • Gothic (film) (category Cultural depictions of John Polidori)
    Clairmont (Mary Shelley's stepsister) and Timothy Spall as Dr. John William Polidori. It features a soundtrack by Thomas Dolby, and marks Richardson's...
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    successful writing teacher. Of her four brothers, the best-remembered is John William Polidori, Lord Byron's personal physician. Frances received an excellent...
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  • Polidori is an Italian surname. Polidori may refer to: Alessandro Polidori (born 1992), Italian footballer Ambra Polidori (born 1954), Mexican artist...
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    feature a vampire theme. The main character was Augustus Darvell. John William Polidori based his novella The Vampyre (1819), originally attributed in print...
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    and Mary's stepsister famously spent a summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her...
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