Rare 1830 First Edition Biography Letters Lord Byron On Frankenstein Vampires
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RARE 1830 FIRST EDITION BIOGRAPHY LETTERS LORD BYRON ON FRANKENSTEIN VAMPIRES. Lots of letters to Moore, Shelley. Interesting material on the fight of Greece for independence from Ottoman Turkey, the cause for which Byron would eventually die. A rare set. Byron was one of the first authors to write about vampires. From 1830, nearing its 200th birthday, this is Moore's Life of Lord Byron, by Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, including one volume of his letters, on such subjects as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, his trip to Ottoman Turkey and Greece, etc. Lots of letters to Moore, Shelley. Interesting material on the fight of Greece for independence from Ottoman Turkey, the cause for which Byron would eventually die. Bound in reddish cloth with paper spine labels, one label somewhat compromised. A rare set. Byron was one of the first authors to write about vampires. In the summer of 1816 he settled at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva, Switzerland, with his personal physician, John William Polidori. There Byron befriended the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and author Mary Godwin, Shelley's future wife. He was also joined by Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, with whom he had had an affair in London, which subsequently resulted in the birth of their illegitimate child Allegra, who died at the age of 5 under the care of Byron later in life. Several times Byron went to see Germaine de Staël and her Coppet group, which turned out to be a valid intellectual and emotional support to Byron at the time. Kept indoors at the Villa Diodati by the "incessant rain" of "that wet, ungenial summer" over three days in June, the five turned to reading fantastical stories, including Fantasmagoriana, and then devising their own tales. Mary Shelley produced what would become Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, and Polidori produced The Vampyre, the progenitor of the Romantic vampire genre.[68] The Vampyre was inspired by a fragmentary story of Byron, "A Fragment". Byron's story fragment was published as a postscript to Mazeppa; he also wrote the third canto of Childe Harold.
