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| Mary ran off with 21-year-old
Percy when she was only 16 years old.
Percy was married at the time. After
Percy's wife Harriet committed suicide, Mary
and Percy were married. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one
of the romantic poets. When Mary was only 24,
he was drowned in an accident, leaving Mary
a very young widow with a child to raise.
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These pictures are from the Keats-Shelley Museum (near the Spanish Steps)
in Rome, Italy.
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| Lord Byron, another romantic
poet, friend of Mary and Percy Shelley.
Byron was a very close friend of Percy. |
John Polidori was the personal
physician to Lord Byron. He wrote "The
Vampyre" which was based on a story told by
Byron on the same evening when Mary Shelley
first told the story "Frankenstein" |
These were the four people who decided to tell ghost stories one rainy night
in Geneva. On this night Mary Shelley told the first version of her
famous novel "Frankenstein. or the Modern Prometheus". Lord Byron
told a short vampire story which was later fleshed out as the short story
"Vampyre" by John Polidori.
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