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 told by Lord Byron as part of a contest among Polidori, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron...
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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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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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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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Gino Polidori (1941–2014), American politician John William Polidori (1795–1821), Italian-English physician and writer, son of Gaetano Paolo Polidori (1778–1847)...
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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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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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to Switzerland, where they met him and his personal physician, John William Polidori, at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is unknown whether Clairmont...
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