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burningvelvet · 2 days

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as a continuation to my unofficial series of posts i sometimes call "everyone in the literary scene (& all influential people in general) used to be related or know each other & it led to some really weird coincidences"

john polidori was a writer and the assistant of the famous byron who was in a long relationship with teresa gamba, who was married to the much older count guiccioli; & earlier, john polidori's father gaetano polidori had been a writer and the assistant of the famous alfieri, who had been friends with that same count guiccioli! many have written about the similarities between byron & alfieri — & knowing byron's love for symbolism etc., it's likely that polidori's father's service to alfieri was one of the things to inspire him to place john in his service.

and then through his sisters marriage, john polidori was the (posthumous) uncle of writer christina rossetti and writer/artist dante gabriel rossetti. john's father gaetano published the first works of his rossetti grandchildren as well as the works of his father agostino ansano polidori, who was a writer and a doctor like john.

#john polidori #gaetano polidori #count guiccioli #teresa gamba #teresa guiccioli #lord byron #alfieri #christina rossetti #dante gabriel rossetti #history #english literature #literature #romanticism #vittorio alfieri #agostino ansano polidori

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dzgrizzle · 1 year

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#Bram Stoker #Dracula #Henry Irving #Herman Melville #Moby Dick #Nathaniel Hawthorne #Mary Shelley #Frankenstein #Lord Byron

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strykerlancer · 21 days

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— Lord Byron, from “To the Countess of Blessington.”

#To the Countess of Blessington #lord byron #words #literature #poetry #quotes #out of my collection #lit

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xanthickee · 5 months

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bitterkarella · 4 months

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Midnight Pals: Ladies of Llangollen

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Shelley: what's going on here Lord Byron: [tossing hair] ah mary what a vision you are Lord Byron: [tossing hair] percy and i were just about to visit the ladies of llangollen Shelley: why are my boyfriends sneaking around together behind my back

Mary Shelley: what the hell is this ladies of llangollen bullshit Lord Byron: [tossing hair] ah see mary it's a most curious thing Byron: [tossing hair] two women living together Byron: [tossing hair] science simply can't explain it Mary Shelley: they're lesbians byron

Byron: [tossing hair] no see it's these 2 women living together Byron: [tossing hair] and their lady servant too Byron: [tossing hair] explain that! Mary Shelley: what's so hard to understand? it's a fuckin polycule Mary Shelley: we're literally in one

Lord Byron: [tossing hair] lesbians? Byron: [tossing hair] oh ho ho only cuz they haven't met me yet! Byron: [tossing hair] isn't that right percy old man? Percy Shelley: yes dear

Byron: [tossing hair] now we're off! Mary Shelley: why're you going all the way to llangollen Mary Shelley: we got perfectly good lesbians at home Byron: [tossing hair] what? Mary Shelley: you heard me fucker

Mary Shelley: byron are you just going to llangollen to hide from your ex girlfriend Byron: [tossing hair] ha ha mary what a ridiculous notion Byron: [tossing hair] ha ha just uh Byron: [tossing hair] ridiculous

Mary Shelley: so it wouldn't bother you if caroline lamb also visited the ladies of llangollen then Byron: [tossing hair] it wouldn't bother me at all Byron: [pausing mid hair toss] why? is she there? what did you hear?

[at llangollen] Byron: [tossing hair] delightfully devilish byron, caroline lamb will never think to look for you here Caroline Lamb: [barging into llangollen] WHERE'S BYRON Lamb: I KNOW HE'S HERE Lamb: DON'T YOU LESBIANS LIE TO ME Lamb: I CAN SMELL HIS AXE BODY SPRAY

William Wordsworth: i was so inspired by those ladies of llangollen that i wrote a sonnet about them Wordsworth: "there once was a girl from nantucket..." Mary Shelley: that's not a fuckin sonnet Wordsworth: uh excuse me i think i know sonnets

#midnight pals #the midnight society #midnight society #percy shelley #mary shelley #lord byron #caroline lamb #william wordsworth

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shelleysbysshe · 1 year

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Please remember that Contessa Guiccioli, Byron's lover while he was in Ravenna, wrote her Recollections of Lord Byron after he died and these are some of the chapters:

#“Lord Byron's marriage and its consequences”#lmao she wrote two chapters on his melancholy #Lord Byron #Romanticism #Poetry #Romanticism shitpost #English Literature #Literature #The romantics #geneva squad

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this-barbie-is-trying · 7 months

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Everybody is talking about this new Roman Empire thing, but the real question is: how many times do you think about that cloudy day in 1816 when Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Polidori challenged eachother in creating the spookiest story ever and "The vampire" and "Frankenstein: the modern Prometheus" were born? Because for me, it happens on a daily basis.

#literature #romanticism #lord byron #mary shelley #percy bysshe shelley #polly dolly #nerd #literary #frankenstein #frankenstiensmonster #dark aesthetic #dark acamedia #women in literature #book nerd #books and poetry #classic book #classics

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wooboomoomoo · 1 year

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✨Wack-An-Author!!!✨

Pick a dead classic author from this poll that you'd personally want to punch!! This is all fun in games, I love bullying dead people 💛.

Listen everyone wants to beat up Lovecraft. That's a given, no competition. So he's not here.

#listen this is all fun and games #i just like bullying dead people 💛#that being said: let the violence commence!!!#classic lit #bram stoker #oscar wilde #victor hugo #walt whitman #ernest hemingway #lord byron #mary shelley #robert louis stevenson #percy shelley #woob words

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rainreads · 7 months

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-Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lord Byron.

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greenmp3 · 8 months

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15-year-old byron's letter signature to his mom

#so real my dude #history #lord byron

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kayaks00n · 1 month

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I love how one summer, a bunch of nineteenth century emo kids wrote some books, kinda making fun of their friend, and somehow they are the reason why now, 200 years later vampires are hot and people still make new art about bringing corpses back to life

#the vampyre #frankenstein #mary shelley #mary shelly's frankenstein #john polidori #lord byron #kayak rambles

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burningvelvet · 10 months

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a twitter thread that actually killed me