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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 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • is a fictional character. First appearing in print in 1819, in John William Polidori's "The Vampyre", he was one of the first vampires in English literature...
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    It was read by Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John William Polidori and Claire Clairmont at the Villa Diodati in Cologny, Switzerland...
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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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    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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    from the Ken Russell film Gothic (1986), in which Spall portrayed John William Polidori. Spall played the starring role of Albert Pierrepoint in the 2005...
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    such as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori, who are frequently linked to Gothic fiction, are also sometimes...
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    Bride Paulus Dutch Girls Lyndon Baines Jellicoe 1986 Gothic Dr. John William Polidori 1987 Body Contact Paul Dream Demon Peck 1988 To Kill a Priest Igor...
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    May 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2019. "'Ted Lasso' Breakout Nick Mohammed Joins John Slattery's 'Maggie Moore(s)'". Archived from the original on 15 September...
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  • bacteria, they have little similarity to vampires as developed by John William Polidori and his successors, which came straight out of the gothic fiction...
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  • Medem, Latvian diploma, duchess of Courland (b. 1761) August 24 – John William Polidori, English physician, writer (b. 1795) (suicide) September 4 – José...
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    Christina Rossetti (category Polidori-Rossetti family)
    Abruzzo, Italy, since 1824, and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician John William Polidori. She had two brothers and a sister:...
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  • It is about the writing of the novel Frankenstein and focuses on John William Polidori, Lord Byron's personal physician, who is embittered and claims that...
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    Times July 30, 2009. Retrieved April 27, 2015 Polidori, John William. "The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori". www.gutenberg.org. Archived from the original...
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    Diodati by Lake Geneva, Switzerland, with his personal physician, John William Polidori. There Byron befriended the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and author...
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    later revealed that the text's true author was John William Polidori. "The Vampyre," by John Polidori, was first published in April 1819. The Black Vampyre...
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    vampires continued in 1819 with the publication of The Vampyre by John William Polidori, which was inspired by an unfinished story by Byron, "A Fragment"...
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    Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with Dr. John Polidori in the summer of 1816. Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary’s...
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    James McNeill Whistler. He edited the diaries of his maternal uncle John William Polidori (author of The Vampyre and physician to Lord Byron), a comprehensive...
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    represent a diverse canon. They include Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), John William Polidori (1795–1821), Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873)...
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    Dallaglio; authors Piers Paul Read and John William Polidori; historians William Dalrymple, Patrick French and John Keay. Listed buildings in Ampleforth...
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    Shelley and John William Polidori (who was Byron's personal physician). This story provided the basis for The Vampyre (1819) by Polidori. Byron's own...
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