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Relatives. Frances Polidori (sister) 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 and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the short story "The Vampyre" (1819), the first ...
Frances Mary Lavinia Polidori, later Rossetti, of London (27 April 1800 – 8 April 1886), was a scholar, daughter, wife, sister and mother of important writers and artists; she was the governess of her four children. She was also a model of the paintings of her son Dante. Some photographic portraits of the Rossetti family by Lewis Carroll in the Victorian era are permanently displayed at the ...
John William Polidori’s tale ‘The Vampyre’ (1819) was the first vampire fiction in English and rapidly became an international sensation. The story of its conception, composition, and publication would appear to be a familiar one, but, like many accounts of textual genesis in the Romantic period, collapses under close scrutiny – most ...
21 de jul. de 2023 · Polidori’s story begins with the emergence of Lord Ruthven, a strange and reserved but alluring and fascinating figure, in English society. Ruthven rises to popularity and gets invited into other socialites’ homes in appreciation of his peculiar looks, crowned with a dead eye, and of his well-mannered reticence toward the forward attempts at his seduction made by known disgraced ...
29 de oct. de 2021 · His sister Frances went on to marry another Italian, the politically exiled Gabriele Rossetti, and their children were the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the critic William Michael Rossetti, the poet Christina Rossetti and the author (and nun) Maria Francesca Rossetti. This made Polidori their uncle, albeit posthumously.
17 de abr. de 2023 · Frances Polidori had worked as a governess from the age of 16 and educated the children at home before the two boys were sent to school to learn Latin and other subjects beyond Frances Rossetti’s capability. The girls had to make do with learning from their brothers’ textbooks. Whilst closest to William in age, Christina was like the fiery ...
26 de jul. de 2020 · John William Polidori was born in London in 1795. His father, Gaetano, was an Italian political refugee, his mother an English governess. Polidori’s sister Frances would marry the exiled Italian scholar Gabriele Rossetti, making John the uncle of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his poet sister Christina.
