Rowing with the Wind
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Rowing with the Wind is a 1988 Spanish film written and directed by Gonzalo Suárez. Concerning the English writer Mary Shelley and her circle, it stars Hugh Grant, Lizzy McInnerny, Valentine Pelka, an
Rowing with the Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley by Alfred Clint
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron by Richard Westall
John William Polidori
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John William Polidori was an English writer and medical doctor. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction.
Rowing with the Wind
…of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), and Mary's stepsister and companion Claire Clairmont take a holiday with Lord Byron and his physician John William Polidori at a villa rented by Byron at Lake Leman, Switzerland. Byron challenges each of the friends to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel…
Portrait by F. G. Gainsford
The Vampyre; A Tale, 1819.